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KUWAIT: M A Al Kharafi and Sons of Kuwait has won a final conspiracy theories arbitration decision worth 1.2 billion Libyan dinars ($930 million) against the Libyan government as a result of a breach of contract by the Libyan government. In 2006, M A The thin line Kharafi and Sons entered into contract with the Libyan gov- ernment to establish a seafront resort in Tripoli, which included a five-star hotel, hotel apartments and villas, and a shopping mall through a 90-year Build Operate Transfer (BOT) concession. Until 2010, the company, which By Badrya Darwish had spent large sums on feasibili- ty studies, design works and management contracts, had not formally received the land from the Libyan government. [email protected] The former Libyan regime then cancelled its contract with the Kharafi group. As a result the Kuwaiti firm decided to proceed hat do I benefit as a Kuwaiti from the directly to arbitration based on the government’s sudden savage harass- Arab League’s Joint Investment Protection Agreement to Wment and attack against expats in the claim for 90 years of lost revenue. The arbitration panel country? I have the right to know if it is in my awarded Kharafi Group 1.2 billion Libyan dinars (US$930 interest. Does that bring me more money? Does million) including interest as a final decision that cannot be it flourish the economy of the country by kicking contested. The award is the first of its kind in the Arab expats out? Does it solve the unemployment League under the Joint Investment Protection Agreement amongst us Kuwaitis? Definitely no. between Arab countries. — Mid-east.info Let’s face it: the kinds of jobs expats are doing are not our primary target. Why the crazy cam- paign which everybody has been noticing for ‘Hundreds’ four weeks now? It is done to legalize matters. There is difference between legalizing and tak- deported for ing care of the security in any country. All of a sudden the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour traffic offences and Ministry of Interior are at war. It seems they are everywhere and they chase expats. Daily the KUWAIT: Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats ministry is issuing the number of violators who for traffic offences in the past month, a report said have been deported. yesterday, drawing condemnation from a human What an accomplishment! You should be rights group. The Al-Anbaa newspaper cited a senior proud of yourselves, guys. It looks like people interior ministry official as saying that as many as who are sitting in the ministries do not own 1,258 foreigners have been deported for traffic viola- businesses themselves and they do not know tions since a crackdown began about a month ago. Foreign residents caught driving without a licence, what harm is done to the market by this sudden using their cars to carry paying passengers, jumping attack and chasing of expats, as if they are all a red light for a second time, or breaking the speed criminals. The funniest part is that they are limit by more than 40 km per hour, can be deported boasting about it by informing us daily on the without a court order. deportation numbers. But surprisingly, no com- The Kuwait Society for Human Rights called on pany or person was punished that brought these the government to halt the deportations describing souls into Kuwait, took a handsome amount for them as “oppressive”. “The oppressive measure himself and threw them to wander illegally in against expatriates... violates the basic principles of the country. Of course, they will not tell us about human rights,” it said. The group warned that the these people because they have wasta and are measure could tarnish the state’s image abroad at a influential. time when its human rights record is under scrutiny. Let’s talk about the ministry that calls for the Kuwait is home to 2.6 million expatriates who form deportation of “marginal labour”. If they under- 68 percent of the country’s 3.8 million population. stand the word correctly, this kind of labour is Kuwaiti nationals who commit similar offences have important for any country. If the country is emp- their vehicles seized and can be sent to court. tied of this labour, all of us will cry when unable Last month, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour to paint our house or fix something. If I need a Thekra Al-Rasheedi said the state plans to deport plumber, do I need to go and recruit a plumber around 100,000 expatriates every year for the next decade to reduce the number of foreigners living in on my sponsorship from a foreign country - be it the Gulf state by one million. She did not say what Bangladesh, India or Pakistan? If anyone needs measures she would adopt to carry out the plan. household matters to be fixed at home, we need Foreigners need to hold a university degree, earn KD labourers, the porters in the co-op, the airport. BARCELONA: Members of the Castellers “Vila de Gracia” form their famous human tower called “castell” in the Barcelona neighborhood of Gracia yesterday. A “castell” is a human tower traditionally built during festi- 400 a month and have lived in Kuwait for at least two Are they all marginal? Can the airport do without years to be eligible to apply for a driver’s licence, them? Can the co-op serve without the porters vals in many places in Catalonia. At these festivals, several “colles” or teams compete to build the most impressive towers they can. — AP under a decision issued nearly a decade ago. —AFP filling our bags and pulling our trolleys to our cars? Can schools be cleaned without all these PAGE PAGE janitors (commonly known as farash or farasha)? Tunisia Salafists Ticket for $590.5m Can hospitals survive without them? Can any office run without an office boy to make chai clash with police lottery sold in US (tea) and clean? Can any company run its busi- ness without security people? Can you explain what exactly is the marginal labour you target to kick out? Or maybe because you do not have businesses and you do not care. Syrian army, Hezb MPs warn govt on You just try to convince us that you are more loy- al to the country than us and that you are more oil appointments patriotic by kicking out marginal labour out of storm rebel town Kuwait. This would harm businesses. Can we do without taxi drivers? Or are these also marginal Israel threatens more strikes Popular Movement seeks members jobs? Are the drivers who drive the buses which By B Izzak Corp (KPC) Farouq Al-Zanki and appoint- 50 percent of expats rely for transportation, AMMAN: Lebanese Hezbollah militants planned for Geneva next month would end attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside fighting that is deepening the sectarian fault ed Nezar Al-Adasani in his place. A long- called marginal labours too? How about the driv- Syrian troops yesterday and Israel threatened lines between Sunnis against Shiites across the KUWAIT: A number of MPs yesterday serving oil executive, Adasani was a mem- ers who take our kids to school? Do we not need more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, Middle East. warned the government against what ber of KPC’s board of directors and the them anymore? Can you call us, the people who highlighting the risks of a wider regional con- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they called “rushed” appointments in the chairman of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum have businesses and discuss it with us, because flict if planned peace talks fail. Activists said it said his country was “preparing for every sce- oil sector after the government reshuffled Exploration Co, a subsidiary of KPC, before it has an impact on our operations. We are not was the fiercest fighting in Syria’s two year-old nario” in Syria and held out the prospect of leading posts in the vital sector amid a he was surprisingly appointed in the post. government employees. Our salaries are not civil war involving Hezbollah, a Shiite group more Israeli strikes inside Syria to stop bitter controversy over a $2.2 billion pay- The Cabinet also reduced the member- secured in the banks in the end of the month. It backed by Iran which they said appeared to be Hezbollah and other opponents of Israel get- ment to US’ Dow Chemical. The Cabinet at ship of KPC board of directors and is easy for you to sit and invent new rules with- helping President Bashar Al-Assad secure a ting advanced weapons. “We will act to ensure the weekend suspended leading officials appointed a number of new faces. vital corridor in case Syria fragments. Speaking the security interest of Israel’s citizens in the out properly studying their impact on the coun- at state-owned Petrochemicals Industries The appointments however were not from Qusair near the border with Lebanon’s future as well,” Netanyahu said. Israel has nei- Co, which signed the multibillion-dollar to the liking of a number of MPs. MP try. Bekaa Valley, activist Hadi Abdallah said Syrian ther confirmed nor denied reports that it Are you trying to convince us that unemploy- deal with Dow, and referred the whole Youssef Al-Zalzalah called on the prime warplanes bombed the town in the morning attacked Iranian-supplied missiles stored near issue to the public prosecution. minister to suspend the appointments ment among Kuwaitis can be solved by doing all and shells were hitting the town at a rate of up Damascus this month that it believed were In another major step, the Supreme and threatened that if he does not to 50 a minute. At least 32 people were killed. awaiting delivery to Hezbollah, which fought of that? There is a thin line between harassment Petroleum Council and the Cabinet respond, “we will exceed the agreement and legalizing and organizing the labour force. Assad poured scorn on the idea that a US- a war with Israel in 2006 and is allied with and Russian-sponsored peace conference Assad. — Reuters (See Page 8) removed the chief executive officer of you have reached with the Assembly national oil company Kuwait Petroleum Continued from Page 2 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait to hold 16th Int’l Music Festival

KUWAIT: Kuwait is set to hold the 16th Lang after the presidential elections in International Music Festival starting today 1981. The idea spread in Europe in 1982, to celebrate World Music Day, which falls and later went international in 1985 where on June 21. The festival organized by more than 100 countries started marking Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts, the day in celebration of music. —KUNA and Letters will include a variety of musical shows by artists and bands of different countries. These events give local musi- cians the chance to promote their art, and also give audiences in Kuwait the opportu- nity to taste arts from different cultures. Lyricist Bader Boresli will be honored in the festival for his famous patriotic songs which will be played under the lead of Maestro Ahmad Hamdan, alongside singers Abdullah Al-Rowaishid, Suleiman Al-Mulla, Faisal Al-Saad, Sina Al-Faris, and Bassam. Bands participating in the event include Paravonista from Bolivia, Naya which is a women band from Jordan, state Musicians of the Turkish Cultural and Tourism Ministry, Branko Krismanovic from Serbia, and a folk music night is also held by vocal- ists Fattooma and Sulaiman Al-Qassar. The closing ceremony will feature the orches- tral performance “Al-Aasjad” by music com- poser Dr Sulaiman Al-Daikan. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday a host of top local officials at Seif Palace. HH the All musical events will be held at Al- Amir received HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Amir also received Parliament Speaker Ali Fahad Al-Rashed, Dasma Theater starting 8:30 pm, except the as well as H H the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Serbian band show which will be held at Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. —KUNA Kuwait National Museum theater. The idea of a World Music Day was created by American musician Joel Cohen in 1976 while working in French National Radio. The occasion was later marked with the French expatriate blessing of French Minister of Culture Jack MPs warn govt on oil... commits suicide Continued from Page 1 move to make the appointments as “suspi- cious” and charged that some of the names speaker”. Last week, Prime Minister have close relations to the Muslim By Hanan Al-Saadoun the site only to find a man already dead in the Citizen stolen Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Brotherhood and its political arm, the courtyard of the building. Sources added that a A Kuwaiti man complained to the officers at speaker Ali Al-Rashed agreed to work to Islamic Constitutional Movement, which she KUWAIT: A 63-year-old French expatriate com- number of expats living on the first floor of the the Jaber Al-Ali police station that two people resolve a political crisis that was triggered has been targeting for a long time. She said mitted suicide at his residence in Salmiya by building were involved in the fighting. One of stole stuff from his car that was parked at the when MPs filed to grill the interior and oil the investigation committees have con- shooting himself with a pistol inside his mouth, them held the other and threw him out of the cooperative’s parking space in the same area. ministers and the government then boy- demned the oil minister and he should face security sources revealed. apartment, causing him to fall to the ground. He The thieves broke the side glass of the car and cotted Assembly sessions. Details of the next week’s grilling, adding that the died on the spot. The deceased was identified as stole KD200 and an expensive watch besides an agreement between the two officials were appointments indicate that the prime minis- Mahboula clash a Nepalese national. The culprit was caught and iPad and sunglasses. When they saw the owner not published but it was agreed that the ter has been sidelined by the oil minister A violent scuffle broke out among a number handed over to the concerned authorities, while approaching, they ran away but he was able to government will attend the Assembly ses- and two other ministers. MP Faisal Al- of expats in Al-Mahboula, security sources said. the body of the deceased was taken for criminal note down the plate number of their car. A case sion on May 28. Kandari called on the oil minister to stay After receiving a report about it, police reached investigation. was filed. Member of the Public Funds Protection away from personal matters with regards to Committee MP Saadoun Hammad said the appointments and dismissals in the oil sec- committee will speed up its investigation in tor.In another development, the opposition Municipal raids in Mahboula, Hadiya the Dow issue and intends to recommend to Popular Action Movement yesterday refer Oil Minister Hani Hussein to the public opened registration for members, which KUWAIT: A field inspection campaign carried Municipality branch director engineer norms governing hygiene and other viola- prosecution over losses to public funds and marks the body becoming an official popu- payment of the penalty. He said the commit- lar political movement after it remained for out by the Ahmadi municipality authorities Fahad Dughaim Al-Otaibi said that citations tions. Al-Otaibi said that the inspection cam- tee will summon members of the team that several years as a parliamentary bloc. resulted in more than 50 citations being were handed out for running stores with paigns will continue and surprise checks can negotiated the payment with Dow to hear Registration at several diwaniyas across the handed out. The campaign covered foodstuff expired licenses, dealing in food items past happen at any time of the day or night. He their testimony on the payment of the country will continue for one month. The stores, saloons and public stores at Al- their expiry dates, employing laborers with- urged everyone to abide by municipality’s penalty and who had asked them to pay it. movement has already elected some of its Mahboula and Hadiya. out health papers and failure to abide by rules and regulations. MP Safa Al-Hashem described the quick office bearers and committees. Kuwaiti, Qatari teams discuss marine life

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team of the Environmental Voluntary Foundation are hosting a team of Qatari environmental- ists over a three-day period for an exchange program aimed at exchanging expertise in the field of marine life protec- tion. Yesterday, members of Qatar Scientific Club’s Marine Environment unit and the Kuwait Dive Team sat down together in a number of joint workshops to discuss protecting the marine environ- ment. The Qataris spoke of a number of lead- ing environmental projects in their coun- try, including a whale shark protection program, head of the Kuwait Dive Team Waleed Al-Fadel told KUNA. These whale sharks are found in large numbers in the Arabian Gulf waters north of the country, and a number of studies and researches were conducted on the nature of their life cycle, as well as prob- lems they are faced with in the region. Al- Fadel went on to stress the importance of the construction of artificial fish colonies and the initiation of environmental awareness at schools in contributing to shedding light on these efforts. For their part, the Kuwait Dive Team held a presen- tation of their own marine environment protection programs, which include the placing of marine buoys and coral reef and the removal of ship wreckage and fishing nets that have latched on to coral reef, which cause environmental and nav- igational risks, after which attendants car- ried out a workshop on the roles, he stat- ed. Al-Fadel expressed delight at the meeting, aimed at cooperation and coor- dination in protecting the marine envi- KUWAIT: Members of Qatar Scientific Club’s Marine Environment unit ronment, hailing the efforts exerted by and the Kuwait Dive Team sat down yesterday together in a number of the youth of Qatar. —KUNA joint workshops to discuss protecting the marine environment. —KUNA Kuwait Cement Co to sponsor KIE 2013

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Cement bition to showcase the important role resistance/5, Ramadi Cement and Company announced it will be spon- it has been playing for the past four GGBS products which are required in soring the Kuwaiti Industries decades and how it has been actively many mega projects in the state. Exhibition 2013 organized by Kuwait participating in the growth story of He added the company’s factory International Fair from May 27 to June construction and industrial domains. has been expanded to produce klinker, 5 at Hall No 8 in Fair Ground in Mishref. That is how the company has been a basic product for the cement indus- Sales and Marketing Director of serving the cause of national economy. try. This venture has been completed Kuwait Cement Co, Ali Hussain Al- The participation will give a chance to by the grace of Allah and the initial Kandari, said the company was looking cement consumers in all sectors to work for the oven has started. Now, forward to participate and ensure its meet with company officials and know the company can produce all its permanent presence in the specialized about the services and products pro- requirement of klinker, amounting to exhibitions in the industrial field as vided by the company. five million tons annually, which will well as in housing and building. He Al-Kandari said that Kuwait Cement enable the company to meet the said the Kuwait industries exhibition Co. was established in 1968 and its cur- demands of the growth plan for the was considered as an important indus- rent capital was pegged at KD 63.8 mil- state, other projects and new residen- try-related activity held annually and lion. It founded its factory in 1972 and tial cities, all of which need cement the company will participate in it. continued developing its production products. He emphasized that the With a number of industrial compa- capacity which has now reached more Kuwait Cement Company was the only nies working in Kuwait, the company is than 5 million tons annually. It makes one in the country producing all the keen to participate in this annual exhi- Portland Cement normal kind and salt cement used here. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LOCAL MPs initiate moves to delay grilling motions for a month Session on May 28 to be crucial KUWAIT: A number of lawmakers are leading billion penalty payment to US-based Dow deal to establish what was to be known as K- efforts to delay the grilling motions filed Chemical, as well as accusations of allowing Dow Petrochemicals in late 2008 under pres- against the oil and interior ministers for a commercial deals with Israel, not taking any sure from the opposition in the parliament, month, which would ultimately put off the action to prevent the sale of alcohol at prompting Dow Chemical to sue for damages debate until the next parliamentary term in Kuwait-owned gas stations in Europe and as per a penalty clause in the contract and October, a local newspaper reported yester- approving illegal staff promotions at state- subsequently win $2.2 billion in damages. day quoting sources with knowledge of the owned oil companies. Meanwhile, Al-Sane’a accused the Muslim case. Meanwhile, Al-Rai reported quoting cabi- Brotherhood, which does not have any official Speaking to Al-Qabas on condition of net insiders that ministers were set to attend representation in Kuwait but is widely associ- anonymity, the sources indicated that Deputy next week’s session after missing last week ated with the Islamic Constitutional KUWAIT: A delegation from Kuwait National Guard’s music band consisting of Unit Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej and MPs Ali Al- sessions in the wake of the grilling motions. Movement, of “forcing” the government to Commander Colonel Jamal Al-Jawher and major Abdul Nasser Bader Al-Yaseen paid Omair and Abdullah Al-Mayouf have so far They further indicated that there was a great put the “unusual” penalty clause in the con- a visit to the United States Army music unit in order to exchange experiences and to obtained almost enough number of approvals possibility that the cabinet will pass requests tract. get acquainted with the latest musical instruments and training methods. They were from MPs to help pass their proposal during to delay the grillings for three weeks till a cab- In the meantime, Al-Sane’a argued that met by Marine forces musical unit commander who took the delegation on a tour of the parliament’s session on May 28. inet reshuffle “that includes five to six minis- Kuwait has a chance to reclaim the money the music school and training courses. MPs Dr Yousuf Al-Zalzalah and Safaa Al- ters” is carried out and the Constitutional paid to Dow Chemical if there was evidence Hashem last week filed motions to grill First Court pronounces its much anticipated ruling available “to prove foul play on the part of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister on the voting system on June 16. officials overseeing the deal.”. In that regard, 116 senior posts in Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah on allega- Regarding the K-Dow deal, MP Al-Sane’a he called the government to “form an interna- tions of failure to cooperate with the parlia- identified three parties as being responsible tional investigation committee” in order to government vacant ment, failure to implement court orders, the for the fallout from the deal. “The first party look for any evidence of that nature. “The state of security and attempting to cover up a was the weak cabinet which capitulated to committee should be able to probe the bank KUWAIT: More than a hundred senior posts be filled” if Kuwait was to implement HH the Kuwaiti “terror” cell having links with Islamists lawmakers’ pressure and the second party is accounts of all the parties to the deal the remain vacant in state departments concerned Amir’s vision to turn the country into a financial under trial in the United Arab Emirates. the Popular Action Bloc which blackmailed Kuwaiti and the American side. If a manipula- with economic, financial and audit affairs, a and commercial hub in the region. Meanwhile, MPs Saadoun Hammad, the government into canceling the deal,” he tion was to be discovered, cases should be local newspaper reported yesterday quoting Meanwhile, the sources identified three rea- Yaqoub Al-Sane’a and Nasser Al-Merri filed to said in a statement to the press on Saturday. filed with American courts to demand sources privy to the situation. sons why senior positions in important state grill Minister of Oil Hani Husain over the $2.2 The Kuwaiti government had called off the refunds,” he said. —Al-Qabas and Al-Rai According to government insiders who departments remained vacant for several years. spoke on condition of anonymity, 116 job “First, there is a lack of strategic planning and vacancies, some of which have been vacant for long-term vision with regards to senior officials’ seven years, were there in the Ministry of appointments, while employees in the said 320 more Finance, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, departments have failed to meet conditions to the Central Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait be promoted to senior posts. In the meantime, illegal Investment authorities. The vacancies pertain qualified candidates find little incentive to pur- to ‘vital’ posts including those of directors and sue a career in leading public sector posts,” they residents supervisors, which the sources insist “need to told Al-Qabas newspaper. — Al-Qabas arrested

KUWAIT: The ongoing campaign initiated by the Ministry of Interior to stamp out illegal resi- dents in the country continued yesterday with the immigration detectives launching a KUNA head receives envoys sudden swoop in Al-Rai industrial area, mostly KUWAIT: Board Chairman and relations among nations, and estab- has gone through a major develop- nurseries, car wash cen- Director General of Kuwait News lishing communication and conver- ment process by providing new media ters, secondhand furni- Agency (KUNA) Sheikh Mubarak Al- gence among culturally diverse peo- services and expanding its correspon- ture stores etc. The cam- Duaij Al-Ibrahim Al-Sabah received at ple. Also, Sheikh Mubarak affirmed dent missions across the world with paign resulted in the his office yesterday Lebanese KUNA’s keenness in supporting the aim of providing further news Ambassador Dr Kheder Hilwe, Kuwait’s relations with other coun- credibility, objectivity, and accuracy, arrest of 320 illegal resi- Palestinian Ambassador Rami tries, embodying Kuwait’s policy that noted the chairman. dents, fugitives, desert- Tahboub (above), and North Korean is based on openness towards the Moreover, Sheikh Mubarak ers, marginal laborers Ambassador Kyung-Sik Kim. outside world and constantly striving added that the agency supports and household laborers. During the meeting, the chairman for attaining peace and stability in the any effort that assists in boosting discussed with his guests the role of world. Kuwait’s relations with countries of 75 held the media in consolidating bilateral During the past few years, KUNA the world. —KUNA Meanwhile, a security source said a police campaign resulted in the arrest of a large number of people from several suspicious places. The arrested also included some Kuwaiti citizens. The source said the criminal detectives raid- ed these places on Saturday evening, tar- geting three residential towers in Salmiya. The operation resulted in the arrest of at least 75 young men and women. These included both cit- izens and expats.

Parking lot Another security source said First Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud issued an order to impound any car that is found in the parking slots for handi- capped. The confiscated cars will be kept in the traffic department garage for two months and penalties will be collected, the source added.

Nurseries under scrutiny Director of Woman and Childhood Department at the Social Affairs and Labor Ministry, Iqbal Al- Rumaideen, said a group of inspectors were asked to supervise the nurseries and report any violations, besides identifying those whose licenses should not be renewed. She said the depart- ment increased its role by making surprise visits to the nurseries to check out how they dealt with the children. The visits were also video graphed so that no violation escapes notice. She said that the compensation for nurseries that were closed due to the spread of swine flu will be paid soon. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LOCAL Man dies after car falls off bridge in Salmiya ‘Deported’ Gulf national arrested

KUWAIT: A male driver was killed when he lost was caught red handed when he broke a car’s Forged passport control over his car that fell off a bridge in window, and was taken for investigations where Meanwhile, officers at the Kuwait Salmiya recently. Police responded to emergency he confessed to his crimes. He was referred to the International Airport arrested a man who calls about a Kuwait municipality vehicle falling proper authorities to face charges. attempted to enter Kuwait using a forged pass- off the Khatabi bridge after hitting the concrete port. The 39-year-old Nepalese man arrived on barricade on the side. The Asian man’s body was Drunk duo held a flight from a Gulf state and reportedly tried extricated from the sedan after paramedics pro- Two people were arrested in Jahra on Friday to hoodwink the blacklisting procedure. He nounced him dead on the scene. It was taken to night for attacking waiters while they were under was on that blacklist as he was deported from KUWAIT: Fawzy Al-Thunayan, General Manager, Board Affairs at Gulf Bank pre- the forensic department after crime scene inves- the influence of alcohol. Police arrived at an Kuwait on a previous occasion. The man was senting the contribution cheque to the Director of KACCH, Margaret Al-Sayer tigators examined the crash site. A case was filed Indian food restaurant in the industrial zone of Al- arrested after the fingerprint scan revealed his and the former Minister of Health, Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, during his visit to Bayt for investigations. Jahra and arrested the duo. Investigations true identity. He was taken to the proper Abdullah Children’s Hospice. revealed that the two stateless men flew into a authorities for further action. Mom reports addict rage after workers at the Indian restaurant failed Investigations are on in search of a drug addict to comply with their order for Lebanese food. The Thief hurt in escape bid Gulf Bank donates after his mother approached police for help. In two were taken to the area’s police station where A thief sustained several injuries after he her appeal to Salmiya officers, the Kuwaiti woman a case was filed. jumped from the balcony of a Mangaf apart- expressed concern about her drug abusing son, ment when its residents returned home unex- KD6,000 to KACCH saying all her attempts to talk him out of it and Deported man arrested pectedly. According to the police report, the even paying for his Omra trip have been in vain. Traffic police arrested a drunken driver on a family which lives in the apartment, heard KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has announced that it Bank has made in caring for hospitalized chil- The woman said she was apprehensive of her highway south of the country recently, only to strange noises coming from the balcony when has donated KD6,000 to the Kuwait dren. KACCH is one of Kuwait’s leading own security as well as that of her daughters as discover that the man was wanted for entering they entered their place. The head of the fami- Association for the Care of Children in NGOs, providing a wide range of services her son often invites his friends to abuse drugs at Kuwait illegally. According to the police report, ly went to investigate the place and found a Hospitals (KACCH) as part of its ongoing that are catered towards hospitalized chil- her house. the Gulf national was pulled over for reckless driv- masked man apparently trying to rob the commitment to provide charitable support dren. The association organizes and conducts ing before officers found him heavily intoxicated. place. Before he could be caught, the suspect to medical institutions across Kuwait. different activities for hospitalized children Hawally thief netted He was taken to the Criminal Evidence General jumped from the third-floor apartment and lay During his visit to “Bait Abdullah” Hospice, with an aim of reducing the adverse effects Maidan Hawally police managed to arrest a Department, where his identification led the motionless on the floor. He was taken in an Fawzy Al-Thunayan, Gulf Bank’s General of hospitalization on their development and man who admitted to his involvement in 15 police to discover that he was deported previous- ambulance to the Adan Hospital where he was Manager-Board Affairs, presented the well-being. This donation is part of Gulf instances of theft reported recently in the area. ly over drug-related crimes. He was referred to the diagnosed with multiple fractures and contu- cheque to the KACCH Director Margaret Al- Bank’s annual contribution and ongoing The Iranian man was reportedly arrested on proper authorities to face charges which included sions. Police are waiting for him to be dis- Sayer and former Minister of Health, Dr Hilal commitment to help provide superior levels Friday following investigations into multiple cases forgery of official documents as it appeared he charged from the hospital in order arrest and Al-Sayer who expressed their sincere thanks of health care and an enhanced stay for hos- of thefts reported by shops and car owners. He used a fake identity to reenter Kuwait. question him. and appreciation for the pivotal role Gulf pitalized children. Terminal 2 expansion enhances Lebanese PM-designate flydubai passenger experience hails Kuwait’s support BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister-designate affection and respect toward HH Sheikh Tammam Salam praised Kuwait for always Sabah, the government, and people of KUWAIT: Passengers travelling on flydubai are enjoy- The departure and immigration area is the first by the producers of the award-winning Emirati anima- being in lead in support of Lebanon, namely Kuwait. Salam, son of the late premier of ing an improved departure at Dubai International stage of an AED600 million two-year redevelopment tion series FREEJ, flydubai’s most well-known cabin its backing for reconstruction and develop- Lebanon Saeb Salam, also praised KUNA and Airport following the opening of the new extension at of Dubai Terminal 2, which will see it able to handle crew member took her co-stars from flydubai’s on ment of the country. the other Kuwaiti media for their role and Terminal 2. The bigger, brighter terminal not only has more than 10 million passengers every year and is due board safety video to see the new terminal. Kuwait and Lebanon have been bound keenness on cementing these ties and the more check-in desks and self-service kiosks but cus- for completion in 2014. Whilst flydubai’s offering is pretty complete, aside with intellectual, spiritual, and historical bonds mutual cooperation between the two coun- tomers can also enjoy the comfort of a Marhaba Richard Talian, Senior Vice President of Strategy of enhancing services on the ground it is also looking that have been manifested in mutual cooper- tries. Lounge and a range of services at the new business and Development at Dubai Airports said: “As the sec- at improving the on board experience for passengers. ation and solidarity for years, said Salam in an Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic centre - a first for this terminal. ond largest airline operating out of Dubai Earlier this year it became the first airline to offer daily interview. This relationship is unique in terms Development has given Lebanon more than flydubai’s CEO Ghaith Al-Ghaith said: “We look at International as well as being the main carrier at updated digital newspapers through its In-Flight of the bonds of brotherhood and mutual cor- 20 loans worth $612 million, in addition to every aspect of our passengers’ journey, not just the Terminal 2, we want to provide flydubai’s passengers Entertainment (IFE) system and it plans to unveil a dial sentiments, Salam said, adding that these grants valued at $420 million. The Kuwaiti flight and the newly refurbished departures hall at with an enjoyable experience. We have worked closely new food menu later this year. close relations have become an example to be financial aid for Lebanon was used for financ- Terminal 2 provides a convenient start to their journey with flydubai to ensure the terminal meets their needs “Passengers will soon be able to pre-order their on followed, under the guidance of His Highness ing projects in the health, education, commu- and a better customer experience. The transition has as they continue on their rapid growth trajectory.” board meal, reflecting flavours from across our net- the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- nication, agriculture, and development sec- been smooth and we hope our passengers enjoy the As part of the opening, flydubai introduced its work, ensuring that they know exactly what food they Sabah and other sagacious leaders of the Gulf tors. Grass-root Kuwaiti associations and indi- range of new facilities available to them.” mascot, Maya, to her new home. Created exclusively are about to enjoy with the quality that you expect State. The designate-premier, currently viduals have also backed Lebanon in diverse from flydubai,” added Al-Ghaith. involved in intensive local consultations in spheres. The close Kuwaiti-Lebanese ties go flydubai operates a simple model in which fares preparation for forming his cabinet, expressed back a long way, with the Mediterranean include the price of the seat, all taxes and 7kg hand greetings to HH the Amir and to HH the country a favorite tourism destination for baggage in addition to one small laptop bag or hand- Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- many Kuwaitis. Beirut supported Kuwait bag. Checked baggage starts at AED 50 for 20kg, while Jaber Al-Sabah, addressing good wishes to against the 1990 Iraqi aggression. Salam, a seat with extra legroom costs AED100. Once on the two top Kuwaiti figures. recently picked up to head a new govern- board, passengers can choose from a range of option- He expressed deep gratitude to His ment, succeeded Neguib Mikati, a Sunni al extras, including in-flight entertainment packages Highness the Amir, the Kuwaiti Government, Muslim politician who hails from the northern priced from AED 10 or select from the varied menu of and the brotherly people for the assistance city of Tripoli. Salam comes from a famous refreshments and Duty Free items. given to the people of Lebanon, affirming Beiruti Sunni family, traditionally close to deci- More information about flydubai can be found on that the Lebanese have deep sentiments of sion-making and political quarters.— KUNA the airline’s website (www.flydubai.com).

Salem Al-Jeeran Shaab Sea Club to host summer program KUWAIT: The Shaab Sea Club is preparing to organize a ‘summer club’ for children of all ages. The club will feature vari- ous sports and entertain- ment related activities, a senior Touristic Enterprises Company offi- cial announced yesterday. “The event includes swimming training, ten- nis, karate, football, table tennis and pool,” said Shaab Sea Club Supervisor Salem Al- Jeeran. He added that the program includes weekly trips to the Ice Skating Rink, Entertainment City, Messilah Beach and other TEC facilities, as well as tickets to the ‘Children Cinema’. The program starts everyday from 8:00 am to 1:30 pm. Those desirous of participating will have to take KD40 monthly sub- scription for members and KD60 for non-members. The Shaab Sea Club offers the families a 50 percent discount for every child registered after the sec- ond one. Al-Jeeran added that registration will be open for a limited period which will be announced soon. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LOCAL News in brief

Earthquake risk KUWAIT: The member of Kuwait Society for the Protection of the Environment, Dr. Fawziya Al- Ruwaih, said Kuwait was at risk of earthquakes resulting from human activities such as withdraw- ing underground water, oil production and inject- ing water into oil wells. Also, she said earthquakes could result due to movement of plate tectonics. She said Kuwait was like a ship being rocked by waves, because it lies in the Arab plate which is close to the Asian-European plate, and away from the African one. She said there was no place safe from earthquakes, adding that they occur due to two reasons - either the movement of plate tec- tonics or due to increased activity of humans. She said Kuwait lies in the North-East of the Arabian Peninsula which is within the Arab plate that is moving towards the Asian-European plate as well as that of Iran, where medium scale earthquakes are taking place often.

Jaber Causeway Sources at the Ministry of Public Works said that the ministry has contracted with eight internation- al consulting offices to supervise the Jaber Causeway and evaluate the project. Sources added that the ministry will publish this tender very soon after obtaining all necessary approvals from the concerned authorities in this matter, including from Central Tender Committee and Audit Bureau. He said the consulting offices will help supervise the work on this project and will evaluate it, espe- cially regarding sea related formalities that the local consulting offices find hard to execute. Sources explained that the cost of this agreement for evaluation and supervision phase amounts to KD 46 million for five years. They said the eight companies which will evaluate and supervise the project are from the US and Europe. All of these are classified companies and have experience in this filed.

Journalists Union KUWAIT: British Ambassador to Kuwait Frank Baker held a reception at the Embassy garden on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday. The reception was attended by a The court of cassation finally approved the founda- host of dignitaries and diplomats. — Photos by Joseph Shagra tion of the Kuwait Journalists’ Union by issuing a final verdict in this regard after the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor had refused to accredit it. In its verdict, the court stressed that since unions and syndicates were not restricted to laborers and Interior denies requesting since they also included ‘white collar’ professionals including journalists, the measures taken by the founders were fully within the framework of all permission for visa transfer legalities. KAC to spend $124.8m Fingerprint scanners to be used at checkpoints to lease 22 aircraft

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs MSAL sources who indicated that the instantly after a person’s fingerprint is MSAL, Jamal Al-Dousary, announced that KUWAIT: The cost of leasing 22 aircraft by Kuwait Airways and Labor denied news reports which request was denied “to avoid possible scanned, said the sources who spoke on inspection campaign against outdoor during the transition period will be $124.8 million a year, hinted that the Interior Ministry rejected negative impact” of allowing the transfer the condition of anonymity. labor during noon hours will be launched starting 2015 and to continue for the next six years, reports its request to allow domestic workers to such as prompting domestic helpers to Suspected individuals are currently on June 1 and will continue till August Al-Watan, a local newspaper. Meanwhile, observers expect- transfer their visas to the private sector, a flee their employers’ houses and seek jobs sent to the Criminal Evidence General end. A statement to this effect was pub- senior ministry official said in a statement in the private sector. The MSAL had Department for verification of their iden- lished by Al-Jarida yesterday. ed that a memorandum of understanding will be clinched made yesterday. reportedly hoped to allocate a period tity. The sources say that the new system Since 2010, the labor department has between the KAC and Airbus to buy 25 aircraft with the “The ministry had stopped transac- starting June 1 during which domestic allows policemen to see a suspect’s been running annual campaigns at the right to request 10 additional planes when the 50th edition tions to transfer article 20 visas to article workers can legalize their status or find record, visa validity and other information construction sites and other places that of Le bourget Air show in Paris happens on June 17th. 18 visas for a few years as part of its jobs in the private sector so that compa- “on the spot”, and thus helps the police require outdoor work, in order to ensure The purchase contract will be signed on the occasion of efforts to regulate the labor market,” nies are not forced to recruit labor forces arrest fugitives and deportees who re- that workers are not made to work the unveiling and display of the most modern Airbus, Undersecretary Abdulmuhsin Al-Mutairi from abroad. enter Kuwait using forged passports. between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm. The min- A350XWB), which has the registration (MSN001) and which told the Kuwait News Agency yesterday. In other news, Al-Rai reported quoting The sources identified the Friday mar- istry had released a decision in this regard will start operating this summer. Local newspapers reported yesterday security sources that police officers have ket, the Jahra Industrial Area, the in 2010 to protect laborers from working Kuwait Airways plans to purchase 10 aircraft of this type that the MSAL had contacted the Interior been handed portable fingerprint scan- Abdullah Port, Al-Sulaibiya, Fahaheel, and under extreme weather conditions. The at a cost of $2.6 billion, with the right to buy five more, in Ministry for permission to allow domestic ners to be used at checkpoints whenever Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh as the places where summer in Kuwait can be very hot and addition to buying 15 Airbus of model A320neo at a cost of workers to transfer their article 20 visas to necessary for verifying anyone’s identity. the new system is likely to be first intro- temperatures often reach as high as 50 $930 million, with the right to buy five additional aircraft. an article 18 visa issued to a private sector The device allows the police to retrieve duced. Separately, Undersecretary degrees centigrade. The total value of the deal will be $3.6 billion, which equal employee. The reports quoted unnamed information from the ministry’s database Assistant for the Labor Department in the —Al-Rai, Al-Jarida, KUNA to almost KD 1.03 billion.

Kin of Gitmo detainees renew plea KUWAIT: Families of the two Kuwaiti detainees in Guantanamo, Fayez Al-Kandari and Fawzi Al-Qudah, renewed their demand that Kuwaiti gov- ernment make stronger efforts to ensure release of their sons, adding that the maltreatment the two Kuwaiti detainees were going through calls for immedi- ate intervention to get them released. Chairman of the popular committee of Gitmo detainees’ families, Khalid Al-Oudah, said the strikes inside the prison began in January when the Gitmo guards were changed and new guards from Afghanistan, Iraq, and other countries were posted. Also, the strictness dis- played by the new guards trig- gered the wave of strikes, espe- cially after some of their actions were considered as an insult to the Holy Quran. Al-Oudah said there was no doubt that the wave of strikes at Gitmo was the most widespread since 11 years, adding that the statements of US President Barack Obama about shutting down the Gitmo detention cen- ter were like a scratched gramo- phone record that repeats itself every now and then. He said, “We urge those who have the authority or influence to exert all efforts to stop the suffering of our sons and others in this center, and these detainees should be handed back to their countries.” He said if the detained peo- ple were guilty, they can be tried in a court, but things cannot continue as they were now. He said while the US administration is knows for protecting people’s freedoms, justice and the state of law, and also has a highly respected civil constitution, even then it violates the same constitution, human rights and international principles. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LOCAL

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Searching for Kuwait and good a scapegoat work ethics

By Dr Wael Al-Hasawi By Aziza Al-Mufarrej ngineer Farouq Al-Zanki was invited last nce, during a meeting at the Ministry of Wednesday by the Faculty of Electricity and Water, a person raised a ques- E Technological Studies at Kuwait Otion about why full salary was being paid to University to present a lecture about strate- 200 employees who were not even aware of their offi- gies adopted by the Kuwait Petroleum cial working hours at the ministry. Corporation in its plans covering the period A high ranking official answered that there indeed till 2030. was such a problem but it was the responsibility of the Al-Zanki is credited for making a lot of con- concerned undersecretaries and directors, and their tributions to the faculty, including efforts conscience should force them to rectify the situation. which led to the creation of a petroleum Coming from a leader, such a response not only engineering section there. He also had a hand underlined that we are forced to live with this prob- lem, but it also showed that we had no desire to in several agreements signed between the resolve it once and for all. Otherwise, is it realistic to faculty and the KPC, which opened the doors depend on only people’s conscience when it comes to for students to find jobs immediately after displaying commitment and sincerity in their work, or graduation in oil companies that even paid to rely on their sense of religiosity? them during their study period. The agree- What if someone’s conscience had taken a perma- ments have also allowed students to take part nent leave of absence? What if someone’s sense of reli- in researches sponsored by the KPC. gion was weaker than the web woven by a spider? It was very shocking to read news reports Then are we supposed to rest our oars and only pray last Thursday which indicated that Farouq Al- to Allah that things become better? Should we simply Zanki was relieved of his duties as CEO of the accept that there is no possibility to improve things? Must we shut our eyes towards a lax employee who KPC without giving him any explanation. does not even know what his job is? Or another who While I understand that the government has sleeps peacefully at home after making one of the the right to reshuffle people in leading posts expatriates agree to carry out his duties? Should we in any sector, I believe that such a change overlook someone whose work is pathetically slow or should happen at a gradual pace instead of who does not perform properly because he is in a foul abruptly terminating the services of senior mood? Can we ignore an employee who comes direct- officials who have spent a majority of their ly to work after spending a long night in the diwaniya, lives serving in their respective fields. kuwait digest and deals with people as if he is standing guard at a It looks as if the cabinet wanted to allay sewer opening? Should we ignore a selfish employee public’s fury over the failure of the K-Dow who goes missing from his work 30 minutes before he is to leave, all because he wants to pursue his interest deal by showing some ‘seriousness’ in holding Blackmailing Kuwait Airways in the stock exchange, or to tend to private matters or accountable those responsible for the deal. refresh his mood by making a visit to a cafÈ or a mall? However, this should not be done at the By Ahmad Al-Sarraf Why should we have to do any of this? expense of anyone’s dignity and sacrifice. I am talking here in response to what the con- One might wonder about where was the gov- tep by step, it seems that the Kuwait turing company. cerned official had to say. They have to take steps that ernment during the past five years since the Airways is coming back on the track after The lawmaker’s behavior perhaps provides will change the employees’ view towards work and its deal was canceled? Why did it suddenly wake S it escaped apprehensions about going concrete evidence about the extent of corrup- value. up and decided to suspend or fire senior oil bankrupt, courtesy some assistance from the tion in the country’s most important institu- Coming from an official about things being in such sector officials before even questioning government that breathed a new life into what tion. How could a person responsible for legis- a sorry state of affairs, it is clear that we need to quick- them? was otherwise a dying venture. lation and supervising the government’s per- ly salvage whatever can be saved. We should be taking the initiative, like others, to Former oil minister Mohammad Al-Olaim The government understood the serious- formance, resort to such methods to gain solve the problems quickly instead of leaving them to ness of the impact on the Kuwait’s reputation wealth? How can he come up with an offer - explained during an interview with Al-Rai TV linger and accumulate at the expense of our interests last Thursday several details which revealed and economy if Kuwait Airways was to fall regardless of the fact whether it was feasible and nerves. that the K-Dow deal was approved by five apart. Therefore, it was or not - to a company he is The employees who hate work and commitment international consultation offices before it necessary to not only supposed to be supervis- are there in any country, and Kuwait is no exception. was signed, and that the $2.2 billion payment provide financial sup- Parliament members are ing? And after all of that, The only difference is that other countries do not let a which Dow Chemical obtained was not a fine port to the company, required to hold their fellow we are supposed to state of laissez faire continue and instead hold such mentioned in the contract, but part of a but also introduce cer- believe him when he employees to account. penalty clause which allowed the aggrieved tain radical and positive lawmaker accountable if claims he is neutral and Let us not go too far looking for examples. The UAE party to seek damages through international changes in its manage- has good intentions? is next door and it too has similar circumstances, but they are really true to their we do not see such a state of affairs in the employ- tribunals. ment. Parliament members are ment system there. The reason is very simple: supervi- As a result, it hardly promise of cleansing the required to hold their fel- Moreover, Al-Olaim explained that the sion ensures that things are not left to accidents. pressure which MPs put on former prime min- surprised anyone to see National Assembly of all low lawmaker accountable There is a keen focus on good work in the UAE. The ister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah Captain Sami Al-Nisf, the if they are really true to concept of the “secret shopper” helps in ensuring that to cancel the contract, were based on allega- chairman of the board aberrations. Moreover, they their promise of cleansing as it is used to catch malingering employees and tions that the deal was a loss-making one. On of Kuwait Airways, take are urged to put in place the National Assembly of workers. Such specially appointed employees frequent the other hand, he provided documents unprecedented steps in all aberrations. Moreover, the working places pretending to be ordinary citizens which showed that Dow Chemical had actual- fighting corruption that regulations that ban an MP they are urged to put in who have a certain interest. They judge through such ly made double the profits it was supposed to had permeated into the from dealing either directly place regulations that ban a method the others’ performance and commitment make from the joint venture with Kuwait. He national carrier’s admin- an MP from dealing either levels. This is one of the reasons the UAE enjoys an out- went on to reveal that several Supreme istration for decades. directly or indirectly with or indirectly with firms that standing status in many fields, in which it received The first sign of suc- firms that fall under the Petroleum Council members had resigned in fall under the parliament’s international prizes. As for us, we are still captive to protest when the deal was called off, and cess in his war against parliament’s supervision. unfair Wasta culture and the excuse that someone is even pointed out that his signature against corruption was the supervision. This will help This will help protect the right because “this is our son.” No wonder, we are the cancelation decision was later changed as expose about the pres- parliament from becoming always in the back row. — Al-Watan if he was in favor of the decision. sure that MP Saad Al- protect the parliament from a place for profiteering. We have a strange situation on our hands Bous brought upon on becoming a place for profi- Meanwhile, MP Saad Al- that is similar to a conspiracy than anything Kuwait Airways to make Bous’ own confession that In my view else. The government is required to calm it accept an offer of a teering. he owned shares in thir- things down by looking for the real culprits company he and his teen companies that have instead of searching for a scapegoat. I am not children owned. This offer quoted prices far deals with the government is a matter of con- Salaries on time trying to defend anyone or question the higher than another competing offer made by cern. How can we guarantee that all the ten- efforts to hold oil sector officials responsible, another carrier, apart from the fact that the ders won by said companies were awarded fol- but all I am asking is for logical steps to be government chose to purchase a new fleet lowing fair competition as he claims? taken. —Al-Rai through direct negotiations with the manufac- —Al-Qabas

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he clear warning by the Ministry of Social Affairs telling the companies to ensure that salaries Twere paid on time was definitely needed as any responsible employer must ensure there were no bad files and the workers are paid in time. It is good to ensure that both sides, the employees and the employers, are governed properly and regulat- ed as per law. Furthermore, in all cases, we need to ensure that the law abiding person or company must not suffer due to the bad eggs in any basket. It pains one to see good individuals or companies suffering wrongly. The regulations, when applied properly, will ensure that the labour forces will be able to come into Kuwait lawfully, stay here or return as per law and resi- dency permits, without turning it into an event. I think His Highness the Amir was absolutely correct when he mentioned that in certain ministries, the cor- ruption was so rampant that it would require several camels to dredge it out. Surely, we need the new parliament to apply certain correctives, especially after the incidents that may affect our international financial reputation. The approach should be two-pronged - weeding out the old who were part of the malfunctioning, and nurturing the young people who are good so that they can assume senior and topmost positions. It is everyone’s responsibility now since new upcoming mega projects are in the pipeline and these will definitely reflect positively on the investors and the business communities besides underlining the power of the working class. Employers only stand to earn profits and will earn even more, thanks to the huge new projects. Thus, there is a need to delay salaries of the employees; instead, they should use the money lying in the banks. Achieving sound profits can be a good sign of success in the competitive market, and it makes little sense to put on hold the teams working and building these projects. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 Pakistan holds repeat Netanyahu takes aim at weapons ‘leakage’ in Syria poll despite killing

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This undated handout file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on January 5, 2009 shows a missile-firing drill at anundisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea yesterday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) in the afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating, a day after the North fired three short-range missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill. — AFP N Korea fires projectile into eastern waters UN chief calls for Pyongyang to ‘refrain from’ further tests

SEOUL: North Korea yesterday test- before the latest exercise. united front were jeopardised by last fired a short-range missile off its east “We call on the North to take week’s surprise visit to North Korea by coast, its fourth in two days, despite responsible actions for our sake and an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister pleas from South Korea and the UN for the sake of the international com- Shinzo Abe as “unhelpful” in trying to chief to halt the launches at a time of munity.” UN chief Ban Ki-moon, speak- preserve a united front against high tensions. ing in Moscow, also called for Pyongyang. The guided missile was fired into Pyongyang to “refrain from” further Abe said yesterday he would seek the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday missile tests. He said it was time for it talks with Pyongyang to try to settle afternoon, a defence ministry to resume talks with the international the nagging issue of its kidnapping of spokesman told AFP without elaborat- community and reduce tensions. Japanese, without risking his country’s ing. On Saturday the North fired three The US State Department urged alliance with Washington and Seoul. short-range missiles off its east coast, Pyongyang to exercise restraint, with- Apart from security matters, inter- apparently as part of a military drill. out specifically commenting on the Korean relations have been soured by The North’s short-range missile launches. It was unclear what type of the suspension of operations at a launches are not unusual but come at missiles were fired Saturday and jointly-run industrial estate. a time of heightened alert on the Sunday. Seoul military officials quoted The Kaesong Industrial Complex, peninsula, following Pyongyang’s by Yonhap news agency said they may established just north of the border in February nuclear test which sparked be KN-02 surface-to-surface weapons 2004 as a rare symbol of cooperation, tougher UN sanctions. with a range of up to 160 kilometres fell victim to the two months of elevat- Angered by the sanctions and by a (99 miles), or rockets of at least ed military tensions. The North barred joint US-South Korean military exer- 300mm in calibre fired from a multiple South Korean access to the zone and cise, the North for weeks threatened launcher. pulled out its own 53,000 workers ear- nuclear or conventional attacks on Park Yong-Ok, a former South ly last month. Seoul withdrew the last Seoul and Washington. The South and Korean deputy defence minister, of its nationals early this month. its US ally had earlier been watching described the short-range missile When the South Koreans left, they for any test by the North of medium- launches as an act of “desperation” by loaded up cars with bundles of prod- range Musudan missiles. But a US the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un, after ucts, but were still forced to leave defence official said early in May the his country’s recent threats met a much stock behind. The North last two mid-range missiles had been strong response from Seoul and week rejected the South’s call for talks moved from their launch site. Washington. US President Barack on removing goods from the complex, However South Korea’s unification Obama and the South’s President Park calling it “a crafty ploy” to deflect ministry, which handles cross-border Geun-Hye, at a summit this month, blame for the suspension of opera- relations, said the short-range launch- vowed to offer no concessions in deal- tions. es also pose threats to the region and ing with Pyongyang. “It is very regrettable that the North should be stopped immediately. “Such a stern response must have denigrates our offer for talks... and “We find it deplorable that the baffled the North greatly and Kim shifts blame for the suspension of the North does not stop provocative Jong-Un... must have turned to missile Kaesong complex to us,” unification actions such as the launch of guided tests to seek ways out of this dead- ministry spokesman Kim said Sunday, missiles yesterday,” said unification lock,” Park said in a TV interview yester- urging Pyongyang to come forward ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok, day. Seoul said efforts to present a for talks as soon as possible. — AFP Syrian activists: Shelling near Lebanon kills 16

AMMAN: The Syrian military yesterday launched an was not authorized to talk to the media. Officials in offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Damascus were not immediately reachable for com- Lebanese border, a government official said, as activists ment on the offensive. Assad’s government and loyalists reported that regime airstrikes and shelling of the town deny there is a civil war in the country but blame the have killed at least 16 people, including opposition conflict on “terrorists” - a term they use for rebel fighters fighters. - backed by a foreign conspiracy. The western Syrian town of Qusair, home to about Qusair, close to the border with Lebanon and 164 20,000 residents, has been besieged for weeks by gov- kilometers (102 miles) northwest of the Syrian capital, is ernment troops. According to opposition activists, mem- strategically important because it also links Damascus bers of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group were with Syria’s Western coast, where regime loyalists are fighting alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces in the concentrated. This includes Alawites, followers of a area. Hezbollah has been a staunch Assad ally through- Shiite offshoot to which the Assad family belongs. The out Syria’s conflict. rebellion against Assad is largely driven by Syria’s major- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human ity Sunnis. Rights said 16 people, including rebel fighters, were The push on Qusair may be an attempt by the regime killed before noon in Qusair but that the death toll was to regain as much ground as possible before agreeing to expected to rise as fierce fighting is underway and the any negotiations with the opposition in the wake of a military’s operation intensifies. recent USRussian effort to get Assad and his opponents Speaking over the telephone, a government official to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war. Previous in Qusair said government forces have encircled the attempts to solve the conflict peacefully have failed. town, beefing up three offensive positions around it The US-Russian plan, similar to one set out last year in while leaving one “safe passage for fleeing civilians and Geneva, calls for talks on a transition government and the armed terrorists who want to surrender.” an open-ended cease-fire. More than 70,000 people “The offensive to liberate Qusair has begun,” the offi- have been killed and several million displaced since the cial told The Associated Press. He would not elaborate uprising against Assad erupted in March 2011 and esca- further, speaking on condition of anonymity because he lated into a civil war. —AP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Netanyahu takes aim at weapons ‘leakage’ in Syria Israel concern over Russian missiles for Assad JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect yesterday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other mili- tant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say it has ETTADHAMEN: Radical Islamist movement Ansar Al-Shariah supporters clash with launched air strikes in Syria to Tunisian police officers after Tunisia’s Interior Ministry on Friday banned their annual destroy weapons it believed were conference supposed to be held in Kairouan, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, yesterday. —AP destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. In public remarks at the weekly meeting of his cabinet, Netanyahu Salafists in Tunis made no direct mention of those attacks, but made clear Israel was prepared to take action in the future clash with police and said it was “preparing for every scenario” in the Syrian conflict. TUNIS: Clashes broke out between radical shouting insults at the police. Israel had set a policy “to prevent, Islamists and police yesterday after Salafist “We consider that our congress was held as much as possible, the leakage of movement Ansar al-Sharia told its followers in Ettadhamen,” Ansar al-Sharia official Sami advanced weapons to Hezbollah and to gather “in large numbers” near Tunis for its Essid told AFP. He was speaking after the terror elements”, he said. annual congress, defying a government ban. hardline Islamist group called on its followers “We will act to ensure the security Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in “to gather in large numbers” in the Tunis sub- interest of Israel’s citizens in the the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighbour- urb, in a message posted on its Facebook future as well,” Netanyahu added, hood 15 kilometres (9 miles) west of Tunis, page. describing his government’s actions JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, speaks during a weekly cabinet meeting and hurled rocks at police who responded An AFP journalist and Tunisian media as “responsible, determined and lev- in Jerusalem, Israel, yesterday. — AP with tear gas, an AFP journalist reported. reported the arrests of Salafist militants in el-headed”. 300 advanced air defence missile sys- with Hezbollah and threaten both General Martin Dempsey, chair- The security forces used armoured cars Kairouan and other cities, with Ansar al- Israel has neither confirmed nor tems to Damascus. Israel and US forces in the Gulf. man of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and bulldozers to destroy the barricades and Sharia’s spokesman Seifeddine Rais arrested denied reports it attacked Iranian- Netanyahu held talks in Russia “Yakhont is a cruise missile that said on Friday Russia’s delivery of gain access to Ettadhamen, which is consid- at dawn on Sunday, according to a police supplied missiles stored near last Tuesday with President Vladimir can hit targets at sea and strategic anti-ship missiles to Assad was “ill- ered a stronghold of the Salafist movement in source. Damascus this month that it Putin on the Syrian crisis but gave no targets. (It is) a supersonic missile, timed and very unfortunate” and conflict with the government. The Islamists A resident of Ettadhamen had said earlier believed were awaiting delivery to public indication whether Israel’s (with) a range of 300 km, very risked prolonging a war that has retreated to the neighbouring district of that hundreds of Ansar al-Sharia supporters Hezbollah, which fought a war with concerns over the Russian weaponry sophisticated,” Gilad said on Israel’s already killed more than 80,000 Intilaka where clashes continued, with the were in the district, which is a renowned Israel in 2006 and is allied with had been eased. Channel Two television on Saturday. Syrians. police finally appearing to take control. “Five Salafist stronghold, some of them armed with Assad. Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli “The Russians sent it to Syria, A spokesman for Putin, while not police were wounded and taken to hospital in sticks and knives and waving the black flag of A Russian shipment of Yakhont Defence Ministry official, said on beside the strategic defence system responding directly to assertions Tunis,” an officer at the scene told AFP. their movement. anti-ship missiles to Syria was con- Saturday the S-300 and the Yakhont, called the S-300. There are a number Russia had sent the anti-ship mis- Ansar al-Sharia had announced its deci- In the marketplace they chanted “we are demned by the United States on weapons that could complicate any of versions, and they are sending siles, said Moscow would honour sion to hold its congress in the Tunis suburb going to Ettadhamen.” The area saw clashes Friday, and Israel is also alarmed by plans for foreign military interven- them one of the good versions,” he contracts to supply Syria, a long-time after the security forces deployed heavily in last week between the Salafists and security the prospect of Moscow supplying S- tion in Syria, would likely end up said. weapons customer. — Reuters Kairouan, the country’s religious capital, to forces as they moved to stop the extremists prevent the group meeting there as originally setting up tents from which to preach and planned. disseminate their ideas. Salafists advocate an ultra-conservative Tunisia has been rocked by attacks Iran road crash kills smuggled Afghanis brand of Sunni Islam, and Ansar al-Sharia blamed on militant Islamists since the upris- TEHRAN: A car packed with Afghanis smuggled official Colonel Farzad Malek Mohammadi said, board as well as three Iranians. does not recognise the authority of the state. ing that toppled president Zine El Abidine into Iran collided with another vehicle and burst quoted by IRNA, blaming the drivers for exces- Nearly a million Afghans live in Iran illegally, It had made known its determination to hold Ben Ali, and Ansar Al-Sharia is considered the into flames yesterday, killing nine Afghans and sive speed and drifting from the road. according to official figures released in 2012. its third annual meeting despite the official most radical of the extremist groups that five Iranians, media reported. “Nine of them died on the spot due to the Iran is one of the world’s deadliest countries ban, and warned it would hold the govern- emerged after the 2011 revolution. The official IRNA news agency said the crash fire, while the remaining two have been taken to for road accidents. Some 20,000 people are ment responsible for any violence, raising The government, led by moderate Islamist occurred shortly after midnight in the southeast- hospital for treatment to serious burns,” he said. killed each year in a nation with a little over 17 fears of a bloody showdown. party Ennahda, has hardened its stance ern province of Sistan Baluchistan, on a route Three people in the other car, as well as the million vehicles for its 75-million-strong popula- After brief clashes in Kairouan yesterday, towards the extremists in recent months, Afghanis use to illegally cross the border in the drivers of both vehicles, were also killed, he tion. Despite the high number of crashes, the in which the security forces fired tear gas at announcing in early May that two groups the hope of finding work in the Islamic republic. added. A similar accident in April saw a pickup authorities say deadly accidents have decreased stone-throwing Salafists, police and around army is pursuing in the western region bor- “The Peugeot 405 was carrying 11 Afghans truck smuggling fuel crashing into a car carrying in recent years as police take a more rigid line on 60 protesters faced off, with the militants dering Algeria are linked to Al-Qaeda.—AFP who had entered the country illegally,” traffic 15 Afghans in southeastern Iran, killing all on the rules of the road.— AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

After crushing Islamists, France pushes deal with Tuaregs

BAMAKO: After winning adulation revolt, the military carry out a coup, al way to frustrations over Kidal, with many tions. “We have said we will are willing to split of the country.” Diplomats say talks across Mali for a five month military Qaeda-linked Islamists seize the north Malians questioning why France would aid the return of Malian civilian adminis- are quietly underway in Burkina Faso to offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, and 4,000 French troops arrive to dis- not boldly confront the MNLA as it had tration to Kidal to organise elections,” find a way of allowing the elections to France is now frustrating some of its lodge them. Many in government and done the coalition of al Qaeda-linked Hollande said this week, appearing to proceed in Kidal, as a stepping stone to allies by pushing for a political settle- on the streets of Bamako blame the rebels. rule out a military alternative. “We want a political talks with the MNLA and other ment with a separate group of Tuareg January 2012 uprising by the Tuareg Within the army, whose morale evap- political dialogue, and I think that will armed groups once a permanent, elect- rebels. A standoff over how to restore MNLA for unleashing the other calami- orated in a string of defeats last year, happen.” The MNLA stole back into Kidal ed government is in place. Malian government authority to Kidal, ties that nearly dissolved the country. anger simmers over foreign interference. after France’s air and ground assault “It is about finding a gentleman’s the last town in the desert north yet to Nationalists now want the army to “Our men are ready but we have not scattered the Islamists. The town has agreement so the elections can take be brought under central control, is sow- march into Kidal to disarm the rebels. received the orders to enter the town. It since been under awkward joint occupa- place in Kidal,” a West African diplomat ing resentment with Paris and could France is instead backing secretive is a political decision,” said a senior tion by the MNLA with French troops said, asking not to be named. “The tran- delay planned elections to restore talks being held in neighbouring Burkina Malian officer, who asked not to be and, for a time, their Chadian allies. sitional government will not find a defin- democracy after a coup. Faso, designed to allow the July elec- named. Mali’s interim President Defence Minister Yamoussa Camara itive solution to the problem.” President Mali’s army has moved troops tions to take place, while urging Bamako Dioncounda Traore, whom Paris has promised parliament this month that Traore has named a former minister, towards Kidal, a stronghold of the MNLA to address Tuaregs’ long-standing defended from military pressure, voiced Mali’s forces would be in the town by Tiebile Drame, as special envoy to coor- Tuareg separatists, but missed a self- demands for autonomy for their desert support for dialogue with the MNLA on May 15. Residents in northern Mali have dinate talks with northern groups. Traore imposed deadline this week to retake homeland. Clashes between Arabs and Friday in Paris ahead of a meeting with reported movement towards Kidal for wrote in a letter to UN Secretary-General the Saharan town. France, which has its Tuaregs have shown that ethnic tension Hollande. He said plans for decentralisa- weeks, but the force has yet to arrive. Ban Ki-moon that Drame had been own forces camped outside, does not remains high. tion should satisfy the MNLA’s demands. The Kidal region is home to just 0.5 named so that “Mali can keep control of want Malian troops to march on the The former colonial power, France But many in Mali, particularly those percent of Mali’s population - by far its the process”, an apparent sign of frustra- town, fearing ethnic bloodshed if it is won enthusiastic public support across close to the army, are hostile towards least populated area - but the authorities tion with the role played by a panoply of taken by force. Mali for its decision to send troops in dialogue. The official Twitter feed for say the national vote cannot take place UN and African mediators. Another “Paris blocks army at the gates of January to crush the Al-Qaeda-linked Mali’s presidency refers to the MNLA as without it. “Kidal will vote like the rest of diplomat said recent discussions in Kidal,” read a headline in Le Matin, a fighters. French flags still flutter in parts terrorists. the country ... That’s what Malians want,” Bamako had revealed divisions between weekly in Mali’s capital Bamako. of the dusty riverside capital, and Hollande rejects that label, saying the said Gamer Dicko, spokesman for the the Western position that more regional Elections are planned for July in Mali to President Francois Hollande was cheered MNLA fought alongside French and territorial administration ministry, tasked autonomy was needed to resolve the finally restore normalcy after a chaotic as a liberator by huge crowds when he African forces against the Islamists, pro- with organising elections. “Not holding conflict and African nations’ support for 18 months that saw Tuaregs launch a visited in February. But goodwill is giving viding intelligence on Islamists’ posi- an election there would be a de facto a tougher line on the rebels. —Reuters Cameron ‘losing control’ as rift with party core widens Conservative grassroots accused of being ‘mad’

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron financial cost and the ceding of some important Conservative grassroots as “swivel-eyed loons”. is “losing control of his party”, Conservative Party powers to Brussels, like the ability to limit immi- Cameron’s office says the comment did not grandee Geoffrey Howe said yesterday, as a row grants from the other 26 countries in the union. come from them, and insist the prime minister is raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had An opinion poll by pollster ComRes for the still in charge of his party. The row comes at an labelled grassroots activists “mad, swivel-eyed Sunday Mirror and Independent yesterday especially bad time for Cameron, whose flagship loons”. newspapers put support for UKIP at 19 percent, bill to legalise same-sex marriage will be debat- The furore threatens to further alienate which ComRes said was the highest level the ed in parliament this week. Conservative Cameron and his inner circle from the core of his party had achieved in any survey yet. activists wrote to Cameron on Sunday warning party, with whom ties are already almost at The opposition Labour party led with 35 per- that the move would boost UKIP’s membership. breaking point. Differences with the grassroots cent, while the Conservatives were on 29 per- “The prime minister seems to have gathered over Britain’s membership of the European cent and their Liberal Democrat coalition part- around himself a metropolitan elite who seem to Union and Cameron’s support for legalising ners on 8. “The ratchet-effect of Euroscepticism inhabit a different planet to most of us ... Droves same-sex marriage have raised questions over has now gone so far that the Conservative lead- of previously loyal Conservative Party members his leadership and could hurt the party’s ership is in effect running scared of its own back- are leaving,” Bob Woollard, chairman of the chances in the next election, due in 2015. benchers, let alone UKIP,” Howe said, referring to Conservative Grassroots umbrella group, told “Sadly, by making it clear in January that he the hundreds of rank-and-file Conservative the BBC. opposes the current terms of UK membership of members of parliament who occupy the rows of Cameron says he would like to do more to the EU, the prime minister has opened a seats behind Cameron and his ministers. satisfy the Conservative core, but is held back by ZAGREB: A man casts his ballot at a polling station during the local election in Pandora’s box politically and seems to be losing In January, Cameron promised that if the being in coalition with the left-leaning Liberal Zagreb yesterday, in a vote seen as a test for the centre-left government and its aus- control of his party in the process,” Howe wrote Conservatives won the 2015 election they would Democrats. Ties between the two parties have terity policies, six weeks ahead of the former Yugoslav republic’s EU entry. — AFP in an article for the Observer newspaper. call a national referendum in 2017 on whether frequently come under strain since they teamed Howe was former prime minister Margaret Britain should stay in or leave the EU. But that up in 2010, but they have pledged to stay Croatians vote in local Thatcher’s longest-serving cabinet minister, but did not go far enough for many Conservatives, together to help revive Britain’s weak economy. fell out with her over relations with Europe and who last week forced him to back a new bill that However, in an article published on Sunday, is best remembered for a scathing resignation would enshrine it in law. Cameron hinted that he could end the partner- polls ahead of EU entry speech that helped topple her as leader in 1990. The Conservatives’ restive right wing also last ship before the 2015 election. “Can we improve Cameron’s Conservatives have been rattled week voted to criticise the government’s legisla- the state of the country? Can we fulfil our mani- ZAGREB: Croatians cast ballots yesterday incumbent populist Milan Bandic has held by the surging popularity of the UK tive agenda for not including such a bill in the for municipal officials in a vote seen as a almost interrupted since 2000. Independence Party (UKIP), whose main aims first place, an unusual move in British politics festo? The best way to do that is to continue test for the centre-left government and its A failure to win in Zagreb would be are to pull Britain out of the EU and curb immi- that embarrassed Cameron. with the coalition, but if that wasn’t the case austerity policies, six weeks ahead of the another serious blow to Milanovic, analysts gration. Its rise has fuelled a heated national Compounding Cameron’s problems are then we’d have to face the new circumstances in former Yugoslav republic’s EU entry. warn. Bandic, widely linked by the media to debate over whether Britain derives sufficient media reports that an un-named close aide, at a whatever way we should,” he told Britain’s Total The latest surveys showed that the pop- various corruption scandals in the capital, is benefits from EU membership to outweigh the private dinner last week, described the Politics magazine. — Reuters ularity of Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic’s a former veteran SDP official. He was government, led by his Social Democrats expelled from the party in 2009 when he (SDP), has hit the lowest point since it won decided to run independently in Croatia’s late 2011 elections.In April, the rival right- presidential race that he later lost. Briton arrested wing coalition, led by the main opposition Bandic will face, among others, SDP can- conservative HDZ, won six out of 12 seats didate Rajko Ostojic, the current health over child murders that Croatia will have in the European par- minister, but the latest surveys showed the liament once it joins the European Union race would probably go to a run-off in two LYON: French police were yesterday questioning a 48- on July 1, compared to five for the SDP-led weeks. The SDP hopes to win in the sec- year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting coalition. Slashing spending and raising ond largest city Split and retain power in the throats of his two young children, judicial officials taxes, the government has failed to revive the northern port Rijeka. More than 3.7 said. Croatia’s economy that since 2009 has million voters will elect some 9,500 may- The bodies of the two children aged five and 10 were either been in recession or stagnated. The ors and other local and regional officials discovered on Saturday afternoon in his apartment in main challenge the SDP faces in Sunday’s and deputies. Polling stations opened at Saint-Priest, a southeastern suburb of the central city of vote is to win the powerful post of mayor 0500 GMT and were to close twelve hours Lyon. He was arrested and placed in custody in the of Zagreb, the country’s capital, which later. — AFP evening. A judicial source said a knife which is thought to have been the murder weapon had been found. The source said the man had visitation rights but only in the presence of another person, adding that this was the first time he brought the children home to his apart- ment. Several witnesses said the man fled on roller skates after his former wife encountered him on the stairwell of the building and saw him with bloodstained clothes. She immediately alerted the police. Ahmed Benguedda, a former neighbour of the cou- ple, told AFP the couple had divorced “two or three years ago” and that the man had drinking problems and was a wife beater. The wife moved out of the apartment after the divorce and was living in the Isere region of eastern ANKARA: Women pose for a photograph as tens of thousand of Turks take part in a France. But the children were “well-balanced”, said march to the mausoleum of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to celebrate the Benguedda, whose seven-year-old daughter often Youth Day, marking the anniversary of Turkey’s War of Independence in 1919, in played with them. — AFP Ankara, yesterday. — AFP

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Canadian PM’s top aide quits over expenses scandal

OTTAWA: The top aide to Canadian promises to increase accountability in ondment to Harper’s office from private Trudeau - the telegenic son of former Wright broke government rules about Prime Minister Stephen Harper abruptly Ottawa. Duffy, a former national televi- equity firm Onex Corp. He started work Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau - giving gifts. Duffy was named to the resigned yesterday over his role in an sion journalist, resigned from the on Jan 1, 2011. was elected leader last month. Harper unelected Senate in December 2008 and mounting expenses scandal which is Conservative caucus on Thursday. The expenses affairs is one of the said he had accepted Wright’s resigna- was a popular and effective fund-raiser threatening to undermine the Wright’s departure reflects the pres- biggest crises to hit the Conservatives tion with great regret. “I accept that for the party. Conservative government. sure Harper is under. Officials told since they took power in early 2006 Nigel believed he was acting in the pub- The Conservatives initially said he had Nigel Wright, Harper’s chief of staff, reporters on Friday that the chief of staff promising to clean up government after lic interest but I understand the decision shown leadership by accepting the quit after secretly giving a C$90,000 - who says he did not tell Harper about a series of scandals helped bring down he has taken to resign,” he said in a sepa- check rather than leaving taxpayers on ($87,000) check in February to Mike the check - would be staying. the previous Liberal administration. rate statement. the hook for the C$90,000. Duffy, a member of the upper Senate “In light of the controversy surround- Pamela Wallin, another Conservative A federal election is not due until They quickly changed their tune chamber, to help him cover living ing my handling of matters involving senator whose expenses have been October 2015 and the Conservatives amid media reports that Duffy had expenses he had improperly claimed. Senator Duffy, the prime minister has questioned, quit the caucus late on have a comfortable majority in the claimed daily living expenses from the News of the gift leaked late on Tuesday. accepted my resignation,” Wright said in Friday. Wallin is also a former television House of Commons. But Harper could be Senate while actually campaigning for Opposition legislators said the large a statement. “I regret the impact of this journalist. in for a tough two years in parliament if the Conservatives ahead of a federal check broke ethics rules forbidding sen- matter on the government, our caucus, Opinion polls show the Conservatives he doesn’t move quickly to draw a line election in May 2011. Opposition parties ators from taking presents and made a and all of my colleagues,” added Wright, trailing the Liberals, who have steadily under the matter. Canada’s federal ethics are demanding a probe into the allega- mockery of the government’s repeated a businessman who had been on sec- grown more popular since Justin commissioner is examining whether tions. — Reuters Chinese premier visits India to boost ties Tibetans burn Chinese flag near China’s embassy

NEW DELHI: Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China’s new premier visited India yesterday on his first foreign trip as the neigh- boring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost eco- nomic ties. China says Premier Li Keqiang’s choice of India for his first trip abroad since taking office in March BANGKOK: “Red Shirt” supporters shout slogans as they gather to mark the third shows the importance Beijing anniversary of the military crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bangkok yes- attaches to improving relations terday. About 90 people were killed and nearly 1,900 wounded in a series of street with New Delhi. clashes between demonstrators and security forces, which culminated in a military “We think very highly of this crackdown in May 2010. Two foreign journalists were among those killed. — AFP gesture because it is our view that high-level political exchanges between our two countries are an Thailand’s Red Shirts important aspect and vehicle for our expanded cooperation,” said mark deadly crackdown India’s external affairs ministry spokesman, Syed Akbaruddin. BANGKOK: Around 12,000 Red Shirt pro- moves by the current government of Jasjit Singh, a defense analyst testers rallied in Bangkok yesterday to mark Yingluck Shinawatra, Thaksin’s sister, to and director of the Center for the third anniversary of a bloody crack- push through an amnesty for the political Strategic and International Studies down on anti-government protests which violence. Analysts say an amnesty would in New Delhi, said last month’s bor- exposed Thailand’s deep divisions, police both appease the royalist army and pave der standoff was unlikely to over- said. About 90 people were killed and near- the way for his bid to return to the king- shadow Li’s three-day visit, the first ly 1,900 wounded in a series of street clash- dom. “Three years ago, the world saw sol- stop of a foreign tour in which he es in May 2010 between demonstrators diers shooting protesters and parts of will also visit Pakistan, Switzerland and security forces, which culminated in Bangkok going up in flames,” said Brad and Germany. the military crackdown. Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Singh said Indian and Chinese On Sunday roads were blocked as Red Watch. “But instead of investigating and NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang (C) walks with Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, E. leaders are likely to review border Shirts, loyal to ousted self-exiled former prosecuting those responsible, successive Ahmed (L) and an unidentified member of Indian Protocol on his arrival at Palam Airport in New Delhi talks that have failed to produce a leader Thaksin Shinawatra, massed at an Thai governments and the army have yesterday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India yesterday afternoon on the first stop of his breakthrough despite 15 rounds of intersection in Bangkok’s glitzy shopping politicised efforts for justice and are now maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade- discussions over the past 10 years. district. Central World, Thailand’s largest backing an amnesty bill that would let imbalance. — AFP shopping mall which was torched in the everyone off the hook.” The two sides also will probably final days of the 2010 protest, was also The crackdown followed weeks of rallies discuss working together in crossed the countries’ de facto bor- Minister Manmohan Singh later Aksai Chin plateau in the western closed while the colourful rally took place. by the Red Shirts which brought parts of cen- Afghanistan after next year’s US der on April 15 and pitched camp yesterday and attend a dinner host- Himalayas, while China claims “The protest is peaceful,” said Police Major tral Bangkok to a standstill. Then-prime minis- pullout and cooperation with in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh ed by Singh. Delegation-level talks around 90,000 square kilometers General Chantavit Ramasut, adding some ter Abhisit Vejjajiva, who oversaw the military Southeast Asian countries, he said. region of eastern Kashmir. New between the two sides are sched- (35,000 square miles) in India’s 12,000 people joined the rally with around crackdown, has blamed protest leaders for But tensions run high between Delhi responded with diplomatic uled for today. Li is to attend a busi- northeastern state of Arunachal 750 policemen keeping watch. Thailand the violent denouement and said his govern- the two nations. China already sees protests and then moved its sol- ness summit in Mumbai, India’s Pradesh. has been racked by sometimes explosive ment had no choice but to take tough action. itself as Asia’s great power, while diers just 300 meters (yards) from financial capital, among other Dorjee Tseten, director of political divisions since Thaksin was ousted Courts have ruled that some protesters were India hopes its increasing economic the Chinese position. activities. Students for a Free Tibet, said yes- by the army in a 2006 coup. Rights groups killed by security forces, leading to charges of and military might - though still far The two sides negotiated a The border spat last month terday that New Delhi police had have called for the perpetrators of the 2010 murder being laid against Abhisit-accusa- below its neighbor’s - will eventual- peaceful end to the standoff by prompted the Indian opposition declined permission for Tibetans to violence to be prosecuted. They condemn tions he strenuously denies. —AFP ly put it in the same league. withdrawing troops to their original and media to pressure the govern- hold a demonstration against Li’s While China has worked to shore positions in the Ladakh area. ment to take on China and call off visit. “Tibetan activists are currently up relationships with Nepal and Sri Gautam Bambawale, a senior exter- Li’s visit. The government, however, on the run evading imminent Lanka in India’s traditional South nal affairs ministry official, said chose to go ahead with the trip, police arrest,” he said in a state- Police call fatal NYC Asian sphere of influence, India has Saturday that India and China are highlighting its policy of trying to ment, complaining of a heavy been venturing into partnerships negotiating a Border Defense widen areas of cooperation with police presence in a New Delhi area with Southeast Asian nations. Cooperation Agreement, but China while attempting to resolve where a large number of Tibetans- shooting a hate crime Other irritants remain in the declined to give details. Indian key differences. in-exile live. bilateral relationship. China is a media reports said the agreement China has become India’s Police detained a Tibetan man as NEW YORK: A gunman used anti-gay slurs ing seen what is normally an act warranting longtime ally and weapons supplier proposes a freezing of troop levels biggest trading partner, with two- he tried to burn the Chinese flag before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a only a summons. to Pakistan, India’s bitter rival. Also, in the disputed border region as way trade jumping from $5 billion near China’s embassy in the Indian man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with He told both the bartender and the the presence in India of Tibetan the two countries make efforts to in 2002 to nearly $75 billion in capital. Police, however, allowed a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New manager, “if you do call the police, I’ll shoot spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and settle the issue. 2011, although that figure declined about two dozen members of Shiv York’s police commissioner called a hate you.” The man then opened his gray hood- the self-declared Tibetan govern- Bambawale also said Indian and to $61.5 billion last year because of Sena, a Hindu right-wing political crime. ed sweatshirt to reveal a shoulder holster ment-in-exile is a source of tension. Chinese officials recently held talks the global economic downturn. party, to demonstrate near India’s Before opening fire early Saturday, the with a revolver. The silver gun was used China accuses the Dalai Lama of in Beijing on the future of Trade remains heavily skewed in Parliament, where they burned an gunman confronted the victim and his minutes later in the killing, the commis- wanting to split Tibet off from the Afghanistan. China, India and China’s favor, another source of effigy of the Chinese premier. “Go companion in Greenwich Village and asked sioner said. rest of China, but he says he seeks Russia have discussed the matter concern for India. back, go back,” chanted the protest- if they “want to die here,” Police While in the bar, the gunman also made more autonomy for Tibetans, not trilaterally with the idea of giving India and China have had chilly ers, who also carried placards urging Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The anti-gay remarks, Kelly said. Out on the independence. full support to Afghanistan’s gov- relations since they fought a brief the Indian government to respond violence follows a series of recent bias street, the gunman was joined by two Unresolved border issues ernment as it makes the transition but bloody border war in 1962. toughly to China’s alleged border attacks on gay men in New York, but this friends as he approached the 32-year-old between the two nations have following the withdrawal of US India says China is occupying incursion. The powerful regional was the first deadly one. victim and a companion. One of the three flared as well. In last month’s inci- forces in 2014. 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 party held power in Mumbai from At a news conference, Kelly described men yelled out, “What are you, gay dent, India said Chinese troops Li was to meet with Indian Prime square miles) of its territory in the 1995 to 2000. —AP the events leading to the violence that wrestlers?” according to Kelly. erupted in a lively social scene a few blocks The two men stopped, turned and, from Washington Square Park and New according to Kelly, said to the group taunt- York University: Late Friday night, about 15 ing them, “What did you say?” - then kept minutes before the shooting, the gunman walking north. “There were no words that Nigeria offensive on Islamists escalates was seen urinating on a street outside a bar would aggravate the situation spoken by located blocks from the Stonewall Inn, a the victims here,” the commissioner said. MAIDUGURI: A key city in northeast Nigeria was roads deserted, an AFP journalist reported, while Marte has been among the areas targeted by birthplace of the gay rights movement. He “They were confronted, they did not know on lockdown yesterday as the military enforced a some living in areas not impacted by the curfew air strikes, residents have told AFP. A senior res- then entered, asking the bartender the perpetrators, no previous relation- 24-hour curfew and blocked supply routes in its also stayed in doors. “My area is not affected but I cue official who requested anonymity told AFP whether he would call the police after hav- ships.” —AP sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents. have to stay at home with my family,” trader that he had could not say what impact the offen- The operation against Boko Haram, the group Ezekiel Adamu said. He explained that he was sive has had on civilians because his staff in Borno that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is afraid of coming across soldiers, who “seem to and Yobe have been unreachable. aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants have more power with the state of emergency.” “I have sent emails and texts but have not and ridding the country of “terrorist activities,” the ‘This is the challenge of emergency rule’- heard anything yet,” the official said. The opera- miltary has said. Supplies were also running short in the city, tion could prove to be the largest ever against The offensive has included air strikes on Boko where Boko Haram was founded more than a Boko Haram. A brutal crackdown on the insur- Haram strongholds in remote parts of northeast- decade ago by the radical cleric Mohammed gents in 2009, concentrated in Maiduguri, killed ern Borno state, and has spread to the state capi- Yusuf, who was killed in detention in 2009. more than 800 people and forced the Islamists tal Maiduguri, the insurgents’ traditional home The price of basic goods has soared with sup- underground for a year. base-which residents said Sunday was under a ply lorries prevented from entering the city. Since re-emerging in 2010, they have carried blockade. “We’ve been eating without meat since Friday... out scores of attacks, including gun raids and sui- Soldiers sealed roads heading out of but there is nothing I can do. This is the challenge cide bombings. Many fear that like the 2009 Maiduguri, blocking supply routes to remote of emergency rule,” said resident David Olutayo. crackdown, the current campaign may fail to towns where Boko Haram Islamists have seized Supply shortages and price hikes have also crush the group. power, residents said. “There is a huge build-up of started to bite in the town of Gomboru Ngala, on Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and trucks loaded with essential commodities... along the border with Cameroon, where some Borno top oil producer, has been urged to tackle root the Baga road on the way out of Maiduguri to the residents have fled to escape the air raids. “Trucks causes of the conflict, including acute poverty northern part of the state,” said resident Ibrahim bringing in goods from Maiduguri have ceased and excessive government corruption which has Yahaya. “The drivers said they have been prevent- since last week,” said resident Grema Babagoni, helped radicalise many young Muslims in the ed by the military from going northward,” he told adding that prices have soared as much as 25 per- north. There is also a risk of high civilian casual- AFP by email. The phone network in Borno has all cent. “If the blockade continues for some time we ties, with Nigeria’s military having been accused but collapsed since President Goodluck Jonathan may completely run out of supplies,” he told AFP of massive rights abuses in the past. The conflict is on Tuesday declared a state of emergency there Residents in Gomboru Ngala can be reached estimated to have cost 3,600 lives since 2009, and in two neighbouring states, Adamawa and by phone as the service uses Cameroonian lines. including killings by the security services. ATLANTA: US President Barack Obama greets well-wishers yesterday upon arrival at Yobe. The military on Saturday imposed a round- The town has seen an influx of people fleeing the Jonathan has said that negotiations remain Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Obama is in the-clock curfew in 12 Maiduguri neighbour- nearby Marte district, one of the areas where possible amid the sweeping offensive, but the Atlanta to attend the commencement at Morehouse College and a Democratic hoods considered Boko Haram bastions. The cur- Boko Haram chased out the government and Islamists have so far shown no signs of wanting to Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser. — AFP few was being enforced on Sunday, with most removed Nigerian flags. talk. — AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

Karzai seeks India military Pakistan holds repeat aid amid Pakistan row KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will need for assistance and help, India would seek increased military aid from India during help us,” he said. poll despite killing a three-day visit starting today and will dis- Afghan analyst Wadir Safi, a political sci- cuss recent cross-border clashes with ence professor at Kabul University, says the Pakistan, India’s archrival, an aide said. timing of Karzai’s India trip is likely related to Turnout more than 40% despite heat The comments follow a weekend report recent border skirmishes with Pakistan. Each by the Times of India that said Afghanistan’s side has been accusing the other of firing KARACHI: Under tight security, mission’s offices in Islamabad on cent of Pakistan’s GDP but is rife with of military coups. ambassador to India had said the country across the mountainous border region for Pakistani officials yesterday held a Friday. “Zohra Hussain’s sacrifice will murder and kidnappings and has “We want a change-a real change needs India’s help with “equipment and months, including a skirmish earlier this repeat election in a district of vio- not go waste,” he said. been plagued for years by ethnic, sec- in our country because we are fed up weapons to fight.” The Press Trust of India later month that killed an Afghan border police- lence-plagued Karachi, despite the Firdous Shamim, a local PTI leader, tarian and political violence. with the current political set up, quoted a spokesman for India’s foreign min- man. Both countries have also accused each killing of a senior politician in the city told AFP that Zohra Hussain “was Some 1,000 mourners including which is just disappointing,” house- istry as saying the country is ready to meet other of providing shelter for insurgents fight- the day before. leaving her home for some work Hussain’s family members, friends, wife Arifa Aslam told AFP as she wait- any such request. ing on the other side of the border. Troops, police and paramilitary when three gunmen attacked her. well wishers and party workers ed in a long queue yesterday to cast “Yes, we will ask for assistance for the Afghan accusations that Pakistan is rangers backed up by armoured per- She thought they wanted to snatch attended her funeral prayers in her vote. Polling was also held simul- strengthening of our security forces,” Karzai allegedly trying to torpedo efforts to start sonnel carriers guarded the 43 polling her purse and handed it over to them Defence area Sunday evening. At taneously yesterday for two seats in spokesman Aimal Faizi said in a briefing peace talks with the Taleban have also con- stations in the NA-250 constituency, Saturday ahead of the trip. He did not com- tributed to deteriorating relations. Pakistan is following claims of ballot-stuffing ment on the Indian reports. Karzai’s visit could considered crucial to nudging Taliban leaders, there during the May 11 general elec- irk Pakistan, especially if any arms deal materi- many of which are in hiding in Pakistan, to the tion. alizes. Pakistan considers Afghanistan its own table - a key goal of the United States and its An election official said turnout backyard and suspects rival India of seeking allies ahead of the final pullout of foreign was initially assessed at more than 40 greater influence there as a strategy to hem in combat forces by the end of next year. percent despite scorching weather the country from both sides. Pakistan and Karzai has long been deeply suspicious of and the gunning-down late Saturday India have fought three wars since they were the motives of Pakistan’s government and of an official from the Pakistan divided into two countries when they gained military, which backed the Taliban regime Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of Imran independence from Britain in 1947. before it was toppled in the 2001 U.S.-led Khan. Afghanistan and India signed a strategic part- intervention and has since seemed unable or Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president nership agreement in 2011 that has included unwilling to go after militant leaders taking of the party’s women’s wing in Sindh Indian military training of Afghan security refuge inside its borders. The killing of al- province, was targeted by three men forces. Faizi indicated Saturday that Karzai Qaida chief, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan on a motorcycle outside her home in would seek to expand that cooperation. only strengthened Afghan wariness of his an upmarket part of Karachi. Her “Whatever our Afghan security forces would neighbor. —AP death was the latest following an bloody election campaign marked by more than 150 killings. Taiwan seeks probe Former cricket star Khan was quick to pin the blame on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, into fisherman’s death which represents the Urdu-speaking majority, and specifically its boss Altaf TAIPEI: Taiwan yesterday repeated calls for a joint Manila’s apology and slapped sanctions on the Hussain, who lives in exile in London. investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman Philippines, including a ban on the hiring of new work- “I hold Altaf Hussain directly by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignit- ers, recalling its own envoy and staging a drill in waters responsible for the murder as he had ed a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese off the northern Philippines. It is angry at Manila’s openly threatened PTI workers and investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing description of the death as “unintended”. Taiwan’s leaders through public broadcasts,” the Philippine government of failing to honour its President Ma Ying-jeou has termed the killing “cold- Khan said on his Twitter feed, describ- KARACHI: Pakistani women display their identity cards during the re-poll of voters in the con- agreement to conduct a joint probe. “The decision to blooded murder”, referring to more than 50 bullet ing the killing as “a targeted act of ter- stituency known as NA-250 in Karachi yesterday. Hundreds of people queued up at 43 polling send the investigators to Manila came only after the holes in the fishing boat. ror”. “I also hold the British Govt Philippine government had agreed to let us to do so,” Amadeo Perez, a personal envoy from Philippine stations in a constituency of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi yesterday where a re-vote had been responsible as I had warned them abt ordered over allegations of ballot stuffing. —AFP deputy justice minister Chen Ming-tang told reporters. President Benigno Aquino was forced to return Br citizen Altaf Hussain after his open He said Manila’s de facto ambassador Antonio Basilio home Thursday after Taipei rejected the apology he threats to kill PTI workers,” he said, but they killed her.” least 200 party activists also held a the Sindh provincial assembly. had agreed to such a move in Taipei on Wednesday, but conveyed from the president. Taipei has repeatedly adding that he was “shocked and Police said all three gunmen protest rally in central city of Multan Latest official partial election Basilio’s country had now wavered on the proposal. pressed Manila to issue a formal government apolo- deeply saddened by the brutal escaped after the attack. “They shot and condemned Hussain’s killing. results for the whole country con- Chen said a joint inquiry was the only way to establish gy, to compensate the fisherman’s family and to killing”. her with one bullet near her chin and Tensions have been running high firmed centre-right former prime the truth about the May 9 fatal shooting of Hung Shih- apprehend the killer. In Manila, Perez said his coun- Altaf Hussain condemned the she could not survive,” senior police between the PTI and the MQM, minister Nawaz Sharif as the winner cheng, a 65-year-old crewman on the fishing boat. try is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before attack in a statement and demanded official Nasir Aftab told AFP. Police Karachi’s dominant party, after Khan’s nearly 14 years after he was deposed “While our investigators can provide them with settling the dispute. Issues like Manila’s “one-China” a “judicial inquiry to get to the cul- said the motive behind the shooting party accused it of widespread vote- in a coup. evidence they have collected, Filipino investigators can policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators prits”. In a video message released at was unclear and there was no imme- rigging. The MQM denied the charge His Pakistan Muslim League (N) so come to Taiwan to gather evidence, including talking branding the incident as murder have complicated a press conference in Lahore, Imran diate claim of responsibility. and announced a boycott of Sunday’s far has 124 out of the 272 directly to the other witnesses on board the fishing boat at the the situation, said Perez, chairman of the Manila Khan said: “The party will hold a “We are investigating all leads that re-run. elected seats in the national assembly time of the shooting,” the deputy minister said. The Economic and Cultural Office. “We are waiting for protest in Karachi against the killing we have got but cannot say at the The May 11 election marked while the outgoing Pakistan People’s coastguard has said the fishing vessel had intruded the right time because I was told by the secretary- as well as vote rigging on Monday.” moment whether it was an attempt- Pakistan’s first democratic transition Party dropped to just 31. Khan’s PTI into Philippine waters and tried to ram their own general for Asian affairs, we should wait for the tem- He added the protests would ed street robbery or a targeted of power after an elected govern- moved into third place on 27 seats patrol boat. Chen denied any intrusion, citing a voyage perature in Taiwan to cool,” Perez said in an interview extend nationwide on Tuesday killing,” Aftab said. Karachi, a city of 18 ment had completed a full term, a compared to none in the last assem- data recorder on the fishing boat. Taiwan has rejected with DZMM radio. —AFP including in front of the election com- million people, contributes 42 per- milestone in a country with a history bly. —AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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By Assad Abboud

hastened by the experience of Afghanistan, where hundreds of Saudis fought before return- Cing to sow terror at home, the kingdom is battling to avoid similar blowback from the conflict in Syria, analysts say. In recent months, Saudi officials have issued increasingly stern warnings against volunteers from the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom heading off to fight alongside the mainly Sunni rebels trying to oust the Damascus regime. But diplomats say hundreds of Saudis, perhaps even several thousand, have gone regardless, and judging by death notices and other Upgrade crowns Turkey rise, but pitfalls loom postings on social networks, their numbers show no sign of abating. By Paul Taylor such as media freedom, tolerance of dissent and freedom of and had become a recipient of NATO protection with allied Earlier this month, an Islamist website announced expression because Turks no longer believed they were want- Patriot missiles deployed on its soil for the third time since the death of Rashid al-Shelwi, an engineer from the urkey’s achievement of investment-grade status crowns ed inside the European bloc. Rights groups complain 1991. The source said Washington was keen for Turkey to Saudi city of Taif, while fighting alongside the main- a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political Erdogan is falling short on democracy. repair damaged ties with Israel and ease tension with Cyprus stream rebel Free Syrian Army. On Thursday, the Syrian Treform by a “tiger” economy on the seam of Europe and Ulgen said the rating upgrade was a triple vote of confi- at a time when the discovery of new offshore gas reserves in Observatory for Human Rights reported that a rebel Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous dence in the resilience of the Turkish economy despite the eastern Mediterranean could be a win-win proposition for fighter who appeared in a recent video posting execut- neighbourhood. Moody’s Investors Service raised its rating Europe’s debt crisis, in sound economic and fiscal manage- all sides. Ankara has the alliance’s second largest armed ing captured government forces was a Saudi using the on Ankara’s sovereign bonds to Baa3, or investment grade, ment, and in a strengthened geopolitical relationship with forces after the United States. A key achievement of Erdogan’s nom de guerre Qaswara Al-Jazrawi. Like a significant from Ba1 late on Thursday, following in the footsteps of Fitch the West. “Turkey is a stable partner for the United States in a government has been gradually to cement civilian control number of Saudi volunteers, Jazrawi fights in the ranks credit ratings agency, which took that step last November. region which is likely to remain unstable for years to come,” over the military in a country which witnessed three coups of the Al-Nusra Front, a US-blacklisted rebel group The upgrade came on a day when Prime Minister Tayyip Ulgen said of Washington’s NATO ally. So far, instability in between 1960 and 1981. which has pledged its loyalty to Al-Qaeda, the Britain- Erdogan was showcasing Turkey’s global prestige on a visit to Syria, Iraq and between Iran and Western powers has barely Quijano-Evans said the ratings upgrade should drive more based watchdog said. the White House, and in a week when the emerging nation of affected Turkey’s fast rising prosperity, even if has under- FDI into Turkey, which had attracted less than its share com- 75 million made a final loan repayment to the International mined the government’s declared policy of “zero problems pared to other emerging markets. That could help the country The involvement of Saudis in jihadist groups has Monetary Fund. with the neighbours”. press ahead with import substitution policies in areas such as stoked concerns in Riyadh of a resurgence of the dead- “It was a major strategic step for Turkey,” said Erdal Tanas A double car bombing on its southern frontier last week metals and petrochemicals to reduce its current account ly Al-Qaeda attacks that rocked the kingdom between Karagol, economic director of the SETA think-tank in Ankara. highlighted the risk of Syria’s civil war spilling across the bor- deficit, and diversify its exports away from its depressed core 2003 and 2006, and sparked a rare public intervention “This will help the current ruling party prepare long-term der, with the Turks harbouring more than 100,000 Syrian market in western Europe. It could also help with a number of by King Abdullah. Without specially referring to the plans, to set higher goals and will create a suitable interna- refugees, including military defectors and rear bases for ambitious grand projects including a third major international conflict in Syria, the king warned against “those who tional environment to carry out those plans.” The boost puts rebels fighting former Turkish ally President Bashar Al-Assad. airport for Istanbul, a “Kanal Istanbul” shipping lane to be deceive our children, some of whom have been killed Turkey 11 notches on Moody’s rating scale above historic rival Worsening internal strife in Iraq and the possibility of a carved out parallel to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea to the and others imprisoned.” Greece, on the other side of the European Union frontier, and Western or Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear program Sea of Marmara, and a bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Saudi Arabia’s highest religious official, grand mufti should drive more foreign direct investment (FDI) to an econ- also pose security risks for Turkey. But Ulgen said it was the In the economic as well as the political and diplomatic Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Shaikh, chimed in last month with omy that still has great potential to grow. country’s internal political future that posed the biggest chal- spheres, some analysts see a risk of “imperial overreach” as a warning that there was no religious justification for a “The ratings agencies are finally catching up with the fact lenge to its peaceful rise as a regional power with global Turkey’s global ambitions rise. Ulgen said Erdogan’s effort to jihad, or holy war, in Syria. “The situation in Syria is that the Turkish government has done a huge amount of ambitions. “The biggest challenge is whether Turkey is going reshape the constitution to create a strong executive presi- chaotic due to the proliferation of armed groups that work in the last decade to put the country onto a stronger to succeed in reaching a settlement with its own Kurds,” he dential system with himself at the pinnacle was one such do not fight under a unified banner,” the cleric said. economic and political footing,” said Simon Quijano-Evans, said. The conflict has killed 40,000 people in the last three risk. But dogged opposition, including within Erdogan’s “This is not considered jihad... which must be approved head of emerging market research at Commerzbank in decades. Talks between the Ankara government and jailed own party, meant he was unlikely to succeed. “We see the by rulers.” London. Government debt has fallen to 30 percent of gross separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan led to a historic ceasefire risk of overreach very clearly in foreign policy on Syria, Last June, Saudi Arabia’s Council of Senior Ulema, domestic product from more than 100 percent in the crisis declaration by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in March where Turkey thought it had much more ability to influence which is headed by Shaikh, already issued a fatwa, or years early last decade. Inflation and the budget deficit are under which fighters began withdrawing from positions in governments in the region and it hasn’t been able to push religious edict, prohibiting jihad in Syria without per- falling. southeastern Turkey last week. The peace plan, popular in out Assad,” he said. But the NATO source, speaking on condi- mission from the authorities. But similar measures Turkey’s IMF program and candidacy to join the EU provid- opinion polls so far, is a gamble for Erdogan who could face a tion of anonymity because the alliance does not comment ed a strong policy anchor in the early years of Erdogan’s mild- national backlash before elections next year if it stumbles. “An on its members’ policies, said there was a risk of hubris as failed to stop young Saudis from going to Iraq to fight ly Islamist conservative AK party government from 2003. But unstable environment, deriving from any political risk could Erdogan sought to build a legacy comparable with that of US-led troops after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s the pace of political reform has slowed as EU accession talks jolt the economy to a strong and unexpected degree despite Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded modern Turkey after regime in 2003. Iraqi officials have said that hundreds have run into the sand due to Cypriot and French obstruc- the positive outlook,” said Mehmet Altan, professor of politi- the collapse of the Ottoman empire. “Turkey wants to call of Saudis fought alongside the Sunni insurgents, some tion. “There is a sense of a lost anchor,” said Sinan Ulgen, cal economy at Istanbul University. itself a global power,” he said. “It has great potential but it of them carrying out suicide attacks against US troops. chairman of the Istanbul Center for Economics and Foreign A senior NATO source who has long dealt with Turkey said still has a lot of problems and difficult relations in the neigh- “Today, there is a similar issue in Syria - authorities Policy Studies, EDAM. The EU had lost influence on issues Ankara faced a deteriorating regional security environment bourhood.” —Reuters and religious rulers discourage candidates from jihad,” said Stephane Lacroix, a specialist in Saudi Islamism. Lacroix recalled the price Riyadh had paid for the involvement of thousands of its nationals fighting Jazeera in big gambit with US launch Soviet troops alongside the mujahedeen in the 1980s, most infamously now slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin By Rob Lever their news, and they got credit for it. They got without a large audience, Al-Jazeera can more US homes than it does at present. But Laden. “From the mid-80s, the Saudi authorities gave a reputation as an organization that knows make a name for itself in the US and boost its the news channel could face a harsh recep- official support to young Saudis who wanted to go to an Al-Jazeera win hearts and minds in how to cover news.” Potter acknowledged, prestige. “They will be able to break some tion from some quarters, with critics com- fight the Soviets,” he said. “A number of these ‘Arab America? The pan-Arab news giant is however, that Al-Jazeera America “will have a news,” he said. “They will be all over the plaining about the network known previously Afghans’ were later involved in acts of violence in Saudi Claying the groundwork for the launch of long way to go to build an audience” in the Internet, and I believe they will have a social for broadcasting videos from Al-Qaeda and Arabia.” Al-Jazeera America after its purchase of US market, facing rivals in the news segment (media) strategy. They are not going to have a Osama bin Laden. Saudi officials have sought to play down the num- Current TV, a struggling US cable channel. It like CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. “I do think huge audience, but their impact will be mag- Republican Congressman Tim Murphy ber of volunteers in Syria. Interior ministry spokesman will likely face an uphill battle for viewers but they have an opportunity to be distinctly dif- nified by the Internet.” Al-Jazeera will be able asked the Federal Communications General Mansur Al-Turki said last month that he did not could solidify its journalistic brand, analysts ferent by not doing talk in primetime and by to select from a wide range of journalists. The Commission to review the deal for Current, believe there were many, and that any that there were say. “Al-Jazeera is going into extremely unfa- having a presence where other news chan- group said it received 22,000 applications for citing “legitimate concerns about the sale of would face arrest and interrogation on their return. miliar terrain,” said Adel Iskandar, a professor nels don’t.” But in order to gain viewers, “they some 800 job openings. an American news channel to a media corpo- of communication at Georgetown University need some big names,” Potter said. “Because The US launch was announced in January, ration owned by a foreign government”. The General Saeed Al-Bishi, head of Prince Mohammed bin and co-author of a 2002 book on the Qatar- of the way American consumes television when Al-Jazeera said it was acquiring Current, conservative activist group Accuracy in Media Nayef Centre for Counselling and Care, set up to reha- based news organization. Iskandar noted, news, a lot of it is personality-driven. And so a channel co-founded by former US vice pres- accused Al-Jazeera of being a “mouthpiece of bilitate jailed extremists, said his organisation was help- however, that Al-Jazeera’s English-language far, Al-Jazeera doesn’t have those names to ident Al Gore. Al-Jazeera, whose English serv- the Muslim Brotherhood and its various ter- ing to dissuade young Saudis from fighting in Syria. operation around the world “has done a spec- draw an audience.” ice has been available on a handful of US rorist affiliates”. “Al-Jazeera has already been “Sometimes parents call to tell us their sons want to go tacular job” in areas of the world “where inter- Media analyst Ken Doctor said that even cable systems, will be able to reach millions shown to play a role in radicalizing Muslims to Syria and we advise them against it,” he said. national broadcasters can’t afford to go”. He abroad to make Americans into terrorist tar- Authorities are also trying to control the flow of dona- said that Al-Jazeera, with its “extremely deep gets,” AIM’s Cliff Kincaid said. “Is there any rea- tions from wealthy Saudis to Syrian rebel groups. Last pockets” thanks to funding by Qatar’s royal son to believe its impact in America itself month, the interior ministry warned against donations family, has the money to hire a solid team of would be any different?” to “groups not authorised officially”, insisting that all aid journalists so that it can carve a niche in the The reasons remain unclear for Al-Jazeera’s must be chanelled through the Saudi Red Crescent and difficult US market. US launch, likely to be a huge financial drain other official bodies. But Lacroix believes that “in reality, Al-Jazeera has not released details on the and unlikely to turn a profit anytime soon. authorities are not capable of monitoring funds that go launch and declined a request for an inter- Georgetown’s Iskandar said the group to jihadist groups fighting in Syria”. — AFP view. But it has announced plans to open appears to be seeking to boost the prestige offices in a dozen US cities, including Detroit and influence of Al-Jazeera, and of Qatar. and Chicago, and hired some respected jour- “They want to be able to project an influential nalists. Among those on board are Ali Velshi, a image for their nation state,” he said. But he All articles appearing on these former CNN business news host, and Edward noted that “there could be a certain naivete” pages are the personal opinion of Pound, a former investigative reporter for The by its owners about the news business, and New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. that things could backfire if Al-Jazeera trips the writers. Kuwait Times takes no “All Al-Jazeera America reporters will be up, or is seen as a mere tool of Qatar. responsibility for views expressed fiercely objective, substantively strong and This has happened among Arabic-speak- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- absolutely committed to the truth,” said a ing audiences, Iskandar said, as the network blog post from Ehab Al Shihabi, executive lost credibility for its coverage of the Syria cri- ers to voice their opinions. Please director of Al-Jazeera international opera- sis. “Al-Jazeera made a name for itself doing send submissions via email to: opin- tions. investigative reporting but has lost a large [email protected] or via snail Deborah Potter, a longtime CBS News cor- amount of its audience in the Syrian conflict respondent who now heads the journalism by being seen an extension of the Qatari for- mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. training center NewsLab, said Al-Jazeera has eign ministry,” he said. “In the US, there are a The editor reserves the right to edit burnished its credentials in recent years. “The minefield of problems. They are walking into any submission as necessary. Arab Spring was a real turning point for Al- Colleagues work in the newsroom at the Al-Jazeera English (AJE) studio this blindfolded, but that may be why they Jazeera,” she said. “Every single outlet used headquarters in this Nov 22, 2006 in Washington, DC. — AFP might succeed.” — AFP

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 SPORTS

Griffin wins in South Korea Indian probe into spot-fixing Folau to face Lions JEJU ISLAND: Australian Matthew Griffin won the SK Telecom Open at South SYDNEY: Australia coach Robbie Deans has included code-hopper Israel Folau Korea’s Jeju Island by one shot after yesterday’s final round was called off due to NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India said yesterday it will wait for a verdict from its disciplinary committee before taking any action and two other uncapped players in his preliminary squad of 25 for the three-test heavy fog. A 40-foot putt from the back of the green on the 18th guaranteed him series against the British and Irish Lions, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said the third-round lead on Saturday and it turned out to be the winning shot at the 1 against three players arrested for alleged spot-fixing in the ongoing domestic Twenty20 league. yesterday. billion Korean won ($895,700) OneAsia event at Deans, who will add six more players to his squad on the Pinx Golf Club. “We’ve asked (BCCI anti-corruption chief) Ravi Sawani to submit a report to the disciplinary committee and if the committee says they are June 11, also found places in his party for uncapped “It’s unfortunate to finish like this, but I’ll number eight Ben Mowen and his ACT Brumbies team take it,” Griffin, who leapt to the top of the guilty, we will take stern action,” BCCI President Narainswamy Srinivasan said during a press conference in Chennai. “We have to observe all chan- mate Christian Leali’ifano, who plays at centre and OneAsia Order of Merit with the win, said. flyhalf. “Israel Folau, Ben Mowen and Christian “I thought my final putt yesterday was nels of natural justice. If the players are found guilty, we will not hesitate to act ruthlessly.” Leali’ifano are the three uncapped players includ- big as it gave me the lead, but I didn’t think ed in the Wallabies 25-man squad,” read a tweet it would be the winning putt. It just goes to Test player Shantakumaran Sreesanth as well as Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan have been provisionally suspended by the BCCI after their on the Wallabies official feed. show you really must try and make every- Former rugby league international Folau, who thing.” arrest by Delhi Police for spot-fixing, which involves performing in a pre- determined way at set times for the benefit of gamblers. has played 12 games of rugby union since switch- South Korea has been a happy hunting ground for ing from the Australian rules code for this season, Griffin and it was in the same country that he won his All three players represented a Rajasthan-based team. Srinivasan said the BCCI would bolster its discipline program but was limited in how was rewarded for his fine form at fullback for the last OneAsia title with victory in the Charity High1 Resort Waratahs. T he Twitter feed said there were only Open in September. “High1 was fantastic but this feels even much it could do. “Henceforth all player agents will have to be accredited by the BCCI three uncapped players in the squad, meaning dis- better,” the 29-year-old from Melbourne said. “I never really appointment for in-form Brumbies fullback Jesse Mogg played well in Korea in the past, which is surprising because and an anti-corruption official will travel with each team. But we’re handi- capped when it comes to control over bookies. It is for the police to act, and his team mate scrumhalf Nic White. The remainder of I think the courses suit me but it looks like I’ve found my the squad will be named late yesterday.—Reuters way here now.”—Reuters we don’t have the powers,” Srinivasan said.—AP Broad bowls England to emphatic victory

LONDON: Stuart Broad took seven wickets to England had resumed on 180 for six, Southee wildly at a wide delivery and gave wicketkeeper rip through the New Zealand batting order and dismissed nightwatchman Finn in his first over, McCullum, deputising for the injured Watling, a bowl England to an emphatic 170-run victory caught by substitute fielder Martin Guptill at sec- simple catch and the fast bowler completed fig- on the fourth day of the first Test at Lord’s yes- ond slip. Broad hit a few lusty blows to lift ures of six for 50. terday. The touring side were skittled for 68 in England past 200 but Bell, who spent most of Off-spinner Williamson had Anderson caught just 22.3 overs, putting England 1-0 up in the Saturday in bed with the flu, became Southee’s by Southee at cover after the ball cannoned up two-match series and giving them the perfect fifth victim when he played a loose drive and off short leg, leaving Broad stranded on 26 not start to a summer in which they also host Brownlie pouched a sharp catch at third slip. out. The second and final Test starts at Australia in five Ashes tests. New Zealand, chas- Southee struck again when Swann flashed Headingley in Leeds on Friday.—Reuters ing 239 for victory after bowling England out for BALTIMORE: Oxbow No. 6, ridden by Gary Stevens, leads the field to the finish 213 in their second innings, collapsed to 29 for line to win the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes. —AFP six at lunch and Broad and James Anderson fin- ished them off 45 minutes into the afternoon Oxbow wins session. “It was a really good hour before lunch,” Broad told a news conference. “I was delighted with the way we stuck at it as a unit. Preakness Stakes “It’s all about rhythm as a bowler. My stride pattern was pretty good. I knew if I got the ball BALTIMORE: Oxbow, a 15-1 longshot ridden New York) and see what kind of horse we’ve up there there was enough in the pitch.” masterfully by 50-year-old Hall of Famer Gary got down the road and figure it out from Broad removed Peter Fulton (1), Hamish Stevens, cruised to an easy, wire-to-wire vic- there.” The victory was Lukas’s record 14th in Rutherford (9), Ross Taylor (0), Kane Williamson tory in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, Triple Crown races, including his sixth trip to (6) and Brendon McCullum (8) in the space of 32 denying a Triple Crown bid for Kentucky the Preakness winner’s circle. balls in the morning session. Derby champion Orb. “I got a Hall of Fame ride,” Lukas said of Fulton was caught by wicketkeeper Matt The D Wayne Lukas-trained bay bolted to Stevens’ effort. “We can plan this thing, we Prior in Broad’s first over and he then sent the lead under cloudy skies and chilly tem- can talk about it, we can talk about strategy. Rutherford’s off-stump cart-wheeling with a fine peratures at Pimlico Race Course and never But once that gate is open, they have to make swinging delivery. tired, finishing 1 3/4 lengths ahead of decisions. Taylor edged his second ball low to England Itsmyluckyday. “Gary made some great ones. I told him, ‘If captain Alastair Cook at first slip and Williamson, Rosie Napravnik guided Mylute to a third- you get on the lead, get into that cruising who survived 24 balls for his six runs, inexplica- place finish, while Kentucky Derby champion speed and just let it happen.’” bly drove Broad straight to Steven Finn at extra Orb finished fourth, tiring in the stretch and Oxbow’s triumph was the first wire-to-wire cover. never getting into contention under Joel victory in the Preakness since Aloma’s Ruler in Anderson, who took five wickets in the first Rosario. 1982. The winning time for the $1 million innings, found the edge of Brownlie’s bat and Oxbow finished sixth in the Derby two mile-and-three-16th race was a relatively Cook took another easy catch. weeks ago on a sloppy track at Churchill slow 1:57:54. Broad trapped McCullum lbw, the New LONDON: England’s Stuart Broad holds up the ball as he leaves the pitch after New Downs. On Saturday, Stevens steered clear of Stevens said he thought he would see Zealand captain trudging dejectedly back to the Zealand are bowled all out for 68 in their second innings, in their first Test match, at Lord’s traffic in the opening furlong and never some company in the stretch. “I fully expect- pavilion after he failed to get the decision over- cricket ground. —AP looked back. ed that Orb possibly departing and Will Take turned on review. “He didn’t get a lot of respect even after Charge would be making a run,” he said after Tim Southee was dropped by Anderson at his great performance in the Derby,” said his third Preakness triumph and his ninth vic- second slip off Broad but he heaved the next SCOREBOARD Stevens, who came out of retirement last year tory in the Triple Crown series. ball into the leg side and Joe Root ran round following a seven-year hiatus. “But I came into the stretch so loaded. I from deep square leg to take a good catch just “We came back and breezed him on couldn’t believe that no one challenged me inside the boundary. BJ Watling edged LONDON: Scoreboard on the fourth day of the first test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s Monday and what you see now is exactly how going into the far turn, but when no one did, I Anderson low to Jonathan Trott at third slip for yesterday: he acted in his workout. “When I hit the half- said, ‘I think everybody’s in trouble right 13 to leave New Zealand on 54 for eight. mile pole, I said, ‘Are you kidding me? Is this now.’” Neil Wagner pulled Broad over mid-wicket England first innings 232 (1nb) Williamson 8.3-2-20-2. happening?’ The race was over at that point. I Orb’s fourth-place finish ensures that a for the first six of the match but the tall fast New Zealand first innings 207 (K.Williamson 60, R.Taylor 66; J.Anderson 5-47) New Zealand second innings just walked the dog to the half-mile pole.” Triple Crown champion will have to wait at bowler soon took out Bruce Martin’s middle England second innings (overnight 180 for six) P.Fulton c Prior b Broad 1 Orb, the 3-5 favorite who was riding a five- least another year. The last horse to win the stump to complete test-best figures of seven for A.Cook c Brownlie b Boult21 H.Rutherford b Broad9 race winning streak, broke from the inside Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes was 44. Anderson looked like claiming the last wick- N.Compton b Wagner15 K.Williamson c Finn b Broad 6 post in the nine-horse affair and immediately Affirmed in 1978. et when Wagner skied the ball towards long-leg J.Trott b Williamson 56 R.Taylor c Cook b Broad 0 fell back to sixth. Rosario was in striking posi- “When I got to the half-mile pole, he had a but, after the difficult catch was dropped, the J.Root b Southee 71 D.Brownlie c Cook b Anderson 5 tion in the stretch despite sitting in sixth but hard time keeping up,” Rosario said of Orb. “I batsmen got in a mix-up and Wagner was run J.Bairstow b Southee 5 B.McCullum lbw Broad 8 his colt never fired. used my stick to try to get him going. He usu- out for 17. M.Prior c sub b Southee 0 BJ Watling c Trott b Anderson 13 “I’m disappointed,” said Orb’s trainer, Shug ally takes you there. He always runs hard. McCullum put New Zealand’s collapse down S.Finn c sub b Southee6 T.Southee c Root b Broad 7 McGaughey. “It was a great opportunity. We “But today he never took off. He just stead- to quality bowling and a poor start. “Within an I.Bell c Brownlie b Southee 6 N.Wagner run out 17 were 3-5 and finished fourth. This was quite a ied. Today was not his day.” The Belmont hour the game turned on its head,” he said. “Stuart Broad’s spell of bowling was high class, S.Broad not out 26 B.Martin b Broad1 run for a couple of weeks. Stakes will be on June 8 at Belmont Park in G.Swann c McCullum b Southee1 T.Bolt not out0 “We’ll pack it up and go back home (to New York.—Reuters impeccable length and he swung the ball. “We were confident that 230 was achievable J.Anderson c Southee b Williamson 0 Extras (lb-1) 1 but we needed a good start and 29-6 was not it. Extras (nb-2 w-1 b-3) 6 Total (all out, 22.3 overs) 68 You need to find a way to stem the flow of wick- Total (all out, 68.3 overs) 213 Fall of wickets: 1-1 2-16 3-16 4-21 5-25 6-29 7- Pacers knock out Knicks ets and we couldn’t do that today.” Fall of wickets: 1-36 2-36 3-159 4-167 5-171 6- 41 8-54 9-67 10-68. The day started well for New Zealand when 171 7-183 8-200 9-210 10-213. Bowling: Anderson 11.3-5-23-2, Broad 11-0- Southee removed Finn (6), Ian Bell (6) and Bowling: Boult 15-3-56-1 Southee 19-4-50-6 44-7. INDIANAPOLIS: Indiana moved into the fewer than Thursday night’s loss in New Wagner 13-2-44-1 (1w 1nb) Martin 13-2-40-0 Result: England won by 170 runs NBA Eastern Conference finals with a 106- York. The results showed up everywhere Graeme Swann (1) in quick succession. After 99 win over the New York Knicks on on the floor. Saturday, with a Roy Hibbert block spark- Paul George had 23 points, five ing a late 11-2 run that sealed a 4-2 series rebounds and four assists. David West victory. Hibbert’s block on Carmelo added 17 points, five rebounds and four Pedrosa bags French GP Anthony midway through the fourth quar- assists, and Hibbert finished with 21 ter shifted the momentum of the game, points, 12 rebounds and five blocks, none LE MANS: Spain’s Dani Pedrosa duced a skilful performance to end the feeling was not so good,” he Nine-times world champion with Lewis Stevenson the prime benefici- bigger than the stuff on Anthony that claimed top spot in the world up on the podium — a result he did said. Valentino Rossi of Italy skidded out ary, scoring nine of his 23 points during changed the game. Stephenson had 10 championship MotoGP standings not expect either. “I was struggling a lot to get rear on a curve 11 laps from the finish the run. rebounds and three assists in his best post- when he won his maiden French The 20-year-old prodigy made a grip, I nearly crashed many times. I and finished 12th. “That’s why they pay me the big bucks season game ever. The reason: He wanted Grand Prix on a wet Le Mans course few mistakes, almost crashing once went wide one time so I didn’t Crutchlow, however, managed this summer, so I have to protect the paint,” to avoid a trip home. yesterday. while fighting for position with expect to finish on the podium. to stay on the bike this time. The said Hibbert, who signed a $58 million “I just didn’t want to go back to New The Honda rider took the lead Lorenzo but eventually managed to “But then I was focused on my Manxman had a medical before the contract last summer. “If all else fails, York and play Game 7,” Stephenson said. midway through the race to beat focus on his own performance. “At race, tried to do my best and step race to check whether he was fit meaning the offense, I have to protect the “Just get it done with now and I’d do what- Britain’s Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) the beginning and in the first laps by step I went towards the front.” after he suffered a small fracture in paint.” Next up is a rematch with Miami, ever it takes to do that today. It showed and Spanish rookie Marc Marquez his shinbone in a crash during a the team that eliminated Indiana last sea- tonight.” The New York native made sure of (Honda), who were second and free practice session on Saturday. son. Game 1 will be Wednesday at Miami. it. After George grabbed the rebound off of third respectively. “It’s nice to finally get that podi- Carmelo Anthony scored 39 points and Hibbert’s block, Stephenson took a pass Pedrosa has 83 points after the um. Hopefully from now on we can Iman Shumpert had 19 for New York, from West and scored on a layup to tie the fourth leg of the 18-race champi- be injury-free. I knew Dovvy (Italian which had another poor shooting night. score at 92 with 4:51 left in the game. onship and leads Marquez by six Andrea Dovizioso) would crack in The Knicks made just 40 percent of Stephenson followed that with a steal and points while Spaniard Jorge the end with some pressure,” he their shots, and again wound up on the drove in for a layup, drawing a foul and Lorenzo, a disappointing seventh said after his best MotoGP result. wrong side of a 43-36 rebounding discrep- completing a three-point play. After grab- on Sunday, is on 66 points. “He was slowing up quite a lot and ancy. In the paint, New York was outscored bing another rebound and making two It was Pedrosa’s second victory he let Dani get away which was dis- 52-20, and Anthony scored just four points more free throws, West tipped in a miss in a row after he rode to the limit in appointing but I was happy in the final 12 minutes when he went 2 of 7 and Stephenson closed the decisive spurt tough conditions. “It has been a enough. “It was a difficult race. I from the field. with another layup. Suddenly, the Pacers great race for me because I didn’t couldn’t see anything, that was the “They have a hell of a defense,” Anthony led 101-94 with 1:53 to go. expect it,” he told Eurosport. main problem. When you are said. “They do a hell of a job of controlling New York never got another chance to “I always have problems here, behind the rider the stuff sticks to the paint, closing it down, making it tough tie the score or take the lead again despite with the temperature, the tyres are the visor so whatever Dovvy was for guys. making a far more typical 13 of 30 from 3- cold for me and I never get good spraying up, it was like mud and it “You’ve got to give them guys credit, point range. grip. Last year I struggled a lot in was stuck to the visor and I couldn’t especially when they got a chance to set. “It’s tough to go out this way,” coach the same race conditions but today see much,” Crutchlow, who is now Roy Hibbert gets to sit in the paint, causes Mike Woodson said. “I didn’t make it hap- I got some good grip on the tyres, fourth in the world standings on 55 havoc.” Guard George Hill returned after pen for us and that’s what’s disappointing.” especially in the front, so my brak- points, added. missing Game 5 with concussion, and he The Pacers have a far different goal now ing was good. “When I was in front There was more cheer for Britain gave the Pacers a big boost. as they get ready to face LeBron James, I made a couple of mistakes, almost when Scott Redding won the Hill finished with just 12 points on 2-of- Dwyane Wade and Miami. “We’re not satis- ran out twice and was on the limit.” Moto2 race riding a Kalex. Maverick 10 shooting but had five rebounds and fied with where we’re at,” coach Frank Marquez, who started on pole as LE MANS: Spanish Dani Pedrosa jubilates on the podium after Vinales led a Spain/KTM one-two- four assists, and kept the Pacers composed Vogel said. “We feel like there’s no ceiling world championship leader, fell winning the Moto GP race of the French Motorcycling Grand three when he won the Moto3 enough to commit only nine turnovers - 10 on this team this year.”—AP behind early in the race but pro- Prix.—AFP race.—Reuters MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 SPORTS Nadal and Serena triumph in Rome

ROME: Rafael Nadal and Serena than all the guys I played this week, to 12-2 in their series. best tennis for the past year and a Williams underlined their French so the change was quite a big one. Williams said the match was half or so. Open ambitions with convincing “I tried to play offensively, but closer than the score suggested. “It “But today she played much bet- final victories in Rome yesterday. unfortunately I didn’t have the best was very close, the first three ter in the key moments of the In what was his 30th meeting day. It didn’t go the way I was hop- games were over 20-25 minutes or match.” It is Williams’s second title with Roger Federer, clay court king ing it to go.” so, so it wasn’t really easy out there. at Rome, having first won the event Nadal outclassed the Swiss 6-1, 6-3 Williams looked equally impres- Nothing is really easy,” said the in 2002. as he continued his stunning come- sive on the red clay of centre court. American. And after conceding defeat to back following a seven-month She broke Azarenka’s serve three “I just took the opportunities Razzano in last year’s first round at injury absence. times in a one-sided first set and when I had them. I know she Roland Garros, the American said Williams, who will head to Paris despite a tighter second set the (Azarenka) did as well, but I came she is taking a different approach next week hoping to avenge her American prevailed to stretch her up with the good shots some- this year. “It’s definitely different. It stunning first round defeat to career-best winning streak to 24 times.” has to be,” she said. “I was feeling Frenchwoman Virginie Razzano last matches. It was Williams’s 51st Azarenka agreed the match had excellent last year and didn’t do year, was in equally imperious form career title and took her victory tal- been closer than the score suggest- great. This year I’m more cautious. I as she swept aside Victoria ly over Azarenka, who beat the ed but admitted: “She definitely want to work hard and stay focused Azarenka 6-1, 6-3. American earlier this season in the showed some more incredible ten- and win every point hard and not Nadal’s triumph means he now final of the Doha hardcourt event, nis today... she’s been playing her slack at all.”—AFP leads Federer 20-10 in their series, with 13 of his wins coming on clay. He also now has 24 Masters titles in a career total of 56. Ahead of his bid to extend his ITALY: US Serena Williams celebrates with the trophy during the ceremony of record run of seven victories in Paris, Nadal admitted he had never the WTA Rome Masters. World number one Serena Williams beat Belarusia’s dreamed of such success-he now Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-3 to win the Rome Open title.—AFP has 36 wins in 38 matches since his return to the tour in February. “If you’d told me that four or five Fierce competition months ago I would have said you are crazy,” said fifth-seeded Nadal. “So after eight tournaments, six in Jet-ski race victories, and two finals, it’s a dream for me.” Federer, the second KUWAIT: As part of the Sea Sports Club sitting category as Khalid Burabee won seed, had overcome French upstart celebrations on the return of HH The first place, Mohammad Burabee second Benoit Paire in a late semi-final on Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- and Mohammad Al-Baz third. Saturday to make his first final of Jaber Al-Sabah in good health, and The pro standing category was won the season. under the patronage of information min- by Abdelwahab Al-Essa, followed by But despite winning the open- ister, state minister for youth affairs Abdelaziz Al-Omar and Yacoub Al- ing game on serve on Sunday the Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- Huwaidi. Swiss failed to really get a grip on Humoud Al-Sabah, the third round of jet- In the sitting juniors, Fahad Ibrahim the match. In all, Federer finished ski race took place with the participation Al-Ghanim emerged first, followed by with 32 unforced errors to Nadal’s of 31 riders including several world Tariq Al-Essa and Salem Al-Mutawe in eight. champions. A large crowd was on hand, third spot. Sheikh Salman along with “He played very aggressively as competition was fierce in all cate- President of the Sea Club Maj. Gen. Fahad from the start, he didn’t make too gories. Al-Fahad and other officials distributed many mistakes and had a good The Pro Rider and Marco Marine prizes to the winners, and mementos match overall,” said Federer, who teams took the first three places of the were exchanged. admitted the change in class from his previous challengers this week had been a factor. ITALY: Spain’s Rafael Nadal bites the cup during the trophy ceremony of the ATP Rome Masters. “Rafa has much more top-spin Nadal crushed Switzerland’s Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3 to win seventh Rome title.—AFP Sharks beat Kings in OT

SAN JOSE: San Jose’s Logan the Kings steaming came when Rookie Tyler Toffoli scored the response by the Red Wings after Couture returned from an injury Trevor Lewis was called for goal- lone goal for the defending Chicago handled them easily in to score in overtime and give the tender interference when he Stanley Cup champion Kings, the series opener by the same Sharks a 2-1 win over the Los crashed into Antti Niemi with 4.5 who had won six straight games scoreline. Angeles Kings on Saturday, cut- seconds remaining. since dropping the first two in Just as the Blackhawks did in ting the deficit in their NHL sec- Los Angeles argued that the opening round in St. Louis. Game 1, Detroit took control in ond-round playoff series to 2-1. Patrick Marleau pushed Lewis, Couture’s first career playoff the second period and put the Also Saturday, Detroit beat and goalie Jonathan Quick got a overtime goal came after he game away in the third. “We had Chicago to square their series at game misconduct for arguing missed most of the second peri- more energy,” the Red Wings’ 1-1. San Jose had suffered a cou- with the officials after the game. od when he limped off the ice Henrik Zetterberg said. “We did a ple of galling defeats in the “I find it very tough to believe favoring his left leg. He returned lot of the little things better than opening two rounds of the that a player as intelligent as to an ovation in the final minute we did in Game 1 and when we series, but they responded on Trevor Lewis, that he’d run the of the second and then got the got our chances we were able to Saturday in a game they could goalie,” Kings forward Dustin Sharks back into the series in put the puck in the net.” Patrick not afford to lose. Penner said. “I asked him and he overtime. Kane gave Chicago a 1-0 lead late “The transition from being said he got pushed from behind. “When you see someone in the first, but the game changed FRANCE: Italian Giovanni Visconti celebrates on the podium winning the 146 down to, ‘Let’s get ready to go,’ I’m disappointed that the refs leave after stepping on a puck markedly after that. Brunner tied it kms 15th stage of the 96th Giro d’Italia from Cesana Torinese to Col du was exceptional,” coach Todd had enough confidence to make like that, you don’t know if he’s when he deflected a wrist shot by Galibier in France. —AFP McLellan said. “The leaders did a a gutsy call like that in the last 30 going to come back or not,” Jakub Kindl early in the second, great job. But you always have to seconds of the period.” Marleau said. “And now he has and Smith gave the Red Wings the take that test. You find out a lot That gave San Jose a 5-on-3 his stick back in the game. And lead when he scored off a feed about your team.” Whereas the advantage for the first 1:19 of he scores the overtime winner. from Henrik Zetterberg on a 3-on- Visconti takes Kings had received some con- overtime. The Sharks couldn’t It’s huge. It’s to see him be able 1 late in the second. Johan tentious calls in the opening two convert with two extra men, but to push through that kind of Franzen made it 3-1 in the third games, this time the Sharks were got the winner when Marleau set pain.” when he fired a rising shot past victory in snow the beneficiaries. up Couture in front, who beat Meanwhile, Detroit’s Damien Crawford after a perfect pass from Tommy Wingels drew a hook- Quick for the game-winner. Brunner and Brendan Smith Jonathan Ericsson in the Detroit VALLOIRE: Giovanni Visconti won the 15th Pantani, before collapsing exhausted after the ing penalty on Robyn Regehr “They said we got a break last scored in the second period as zone. And Valtteri Filppula closed stage of the Giro d’Italia yesterday after a finishing line. with 41.7 seconds left in regula- game, so now they got a break,” the Red Wings beat the Chicago out the scoring with 7:57 left in mountain finish in the snow following a “There are no words to describe that, I’m tion. But the call that really had Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. Blackhawks 4-1. It was a strong the game.—AP 149km ride from Cesana Torinese to Col du delighted, I’m delighted,” said Visconti, who Galibier. was briefly banned for three months last year The Italian from the Movistar team held off due to his links to disgraced doctor Michele a charge from the depleted peloton, made up Ferrari. of race favourites, to take his maiden Giro “Today we saw who I am, not what I’ve Li clinches world title stage by 42 seconds from Carlos Betancur shown this last year. I was born the same day and Prezemyslaw Niemiec. Ahead of the sec- as Marco Pantani, January 13. Maybe today ond and final rest day, Vincenzo Nibali held he helped me.” Any hopes of fireworks PARIS: China’s Li Xiaoxia claimed think generally I played quite well. a loser,” added the beaten Liu. Germany’s Patrick Baum to reach onto the leader’s pink jersey after coming amongst the overall contenders failed to her maiden world championship I want to congratulate Li Xiaoxia. Bronze medals were awarded to the semi-finals. home in seventh, 54 seconds down. materialise on the draining final climb. Nibali title in Paris yesterday to com- She played better than me in sev- losing semi-finalists Ding and Fourth seed Zhang recovered The finishing line had been brought 4km briefly stretched his legs but gained little and plete a career grand slam after eral sets and I will continue to try teenager Zhu Yuling. Earlier, reign- from a sluggish start to down down the mountain due to the adverse was quickly reeled back in before the defeating compatriot Liu Shiwen and improve. ing men’s champion Zhang Jike Baum 9-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-2, 11-3 weather conditions at the top of the Galibier. favourites all came home in the same bunch. in an enthralling final. “Only one player can be cham- remained on course to defend his and ensure, just like in the But given the thick sheet of snow around Australian Cadel Evans remains second at Runner-up to Ding Ning in pion. There is always a winner and crown after shrugging off women’s draw, a Chinese sweep the riders as they tackled the final climb, and 1min 26sec with Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran 2011 and four years earlier to Guo of all four singles medals. snow flakes peppering their faces, that would third at 2min 46sec. “They were extreme con- Yue, Li went one step further in Next up for Zhang, also the have been something of a relief. ditions, I tried to shake things up at the end the French capital with an 11-8, 4- Olympic title-holder, is a last-four Having broken clear of his six fellow break- but it was very difficult because of the cold,” 11, 11-7, 12-10, 6-11, 13-11 victory showdown with top-ranked Xu away companions on the penultimate climb said Nibali. at the Bercy Arena. Xin. Xu was given a real scare by up the Telegraphe, Visconti reached the “It really was very cold. It was an impor- Liu appeared set to extend the Japan’s Kenta Matsudaira before Galibier with a couple of minutes on his tant day but the result is good. I have a good match to a deciding game after he eventually prevailed 11-8, 9-11, chasers. advantage, although it would have been bet- saving two match points in the 6-11, 14-12, 11-5, 11-8. And the 30-year-old Sicilian held on up to ter iof I’d gained a bit of time. “Evans is still sixth game but Li would not be Second seed Ma Long account- the finish at 2,301 metres, alongside a monu- very close and Uran still needs to be taken deterred, clinching the title at the ed for top European hope Timo ment to former Italian champion Marco into consideration.”—AFP third time of asking as Liu fired Boll of Germany as he squeezed long. The triumph saw Li achieve through a tightly-contested a table tennis grand slam with the encounter 11-4, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, Johnson races to record win world championship crown 9-11, 11-9 for his 10th win in 13 adding to the World Cup she won meetings with two-time World CONCORD: Cross another milestone off of radioed after Johnson took the checkered flag. in 2008 and the Olympic title she Cup winner and fifth-ranked Boll. Jimmie Johnson’s list. He stands alone in All- A day after Johnson overshot his pit stall picked up last August in London. “I’m pretty happy with my per- Star history. “Five-time” became the first four- during qualifying to earn a poor starting spot, “I won because of my really strong formance today. I think I’m in my time winner of NASCAR’s annual All-Star race, his Hendrick Motorsports crew changed four fighting spirit. Thanks to it I can best shape at the moment; I think breaking a tie with the late Dale Earnhardt and tires in 11 seconds on the mandatory final spot control myself and calm down as Timo is as well and I was well pre- teammate Jeff Gordon on Saturday night. to send Johnson back onto the track in second well as play stronger when I need pared for the match,” Ma told the “To beat Jeff and Earnhardt, two guys that I place for the final restart. to,” said the 25-year-old Li. ITTF.com. “The crowd was for have looked up to my whole life, two massive He lined up inside of teammate Kasey “I learned a lot from the Timo but I’m a professional player, icons of our sport, this means the world to me,” Kahne for the final 10-lap sprint to the cash, London experience,” she added, it’s not new, I’m used it and there Johnson said. He also joined the late Davey and the two battled side-by-side for a little referring to her win over top- were some Chinese supporters in Allison as only the second driver to win back- more than a lap before Johnson cleared Kahne ranked Ding Ning in the 2012 the crowd on my side.” to-back All-Star races. completely. He then sailed away to an easy vic- Olympic final. The 2009 champion Wang Hao It was fitting that he did it at Charlotte tory. “We are doing great things and we are Li also paid special tribute to awaits Ma in the last four after the Motor Speedway, the track Johnson, the five- amazing ourselves in the process,” Johnson her coach Li Sun, saying: “He gave third seed edged past Yan An 8- time NASCAR champion, has dominated since said. Joey Logano finished second and Kyle me a lot of confidence, not just 11, 11-9, 11-6, 12-14, 11-8, 11-2 in his 2002 rookie season. Johnson has won six Busch, who won two of the first four segments, technically but also mentally. I an all-Chinese affair. Austria’s points races at Charlotte, led more than 1,600 was third as neither had a shot at running really appreciate his help.” Werner Schlager was the last man laps and the win in the $1 million Sprint All-Star down Johnson once he got his No. 48 Liu, who was playing in her outside of China to triumph in the Race was his second straight, fourth in 12 years. Chevrolet out front. “The 48, once he got that first final at the event after two FRANCE: China’s Li Xiaoxia poses with her trophies on the singles event when he beat South He also won in 2003 and 2006. clean air, he was gone,” Logano said. “Second previous semi-final appearances, podium Women’s Singles of the World Table Tennis Korea’s Joo Se-Hyuk for gold here “The only four-time All-Star champion - I am isn’t anything to hang your head, but it’s about was philosophical in defeat. “I in 2003.—AFP very proud of you,” crew chief Chad Knaus the million bucks tonight.”—AP Championships.—AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 SPORTS

Tearful Beckham bids Photo of the day farewell to PSG, career PARIS: With the Beatles ringing in his from his teammates before he climbed ears and tears in his eyes, David Beckham the podium to receive his Ligue 1 title admitted that his starring role in Paris medal. Saint-Germain’s French title party was Draped in an English flag and sere- the last chapter of his colorful career. naded by the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye”, a The 38-year-old former England cap- laser show accompanied a brief video tain, one of the most high-profile players highlights reel of his time with the club. to shuffle between football and celebrity, It concluded with the words: “Thank made his final home appearance for the you David”. “The emotions started kick- Ligue 1 champions on Saturday before ing in about 20 minutes before I went off. heading into retirement. It was hard to even run and kick the ball. Although PSG have one more game And to see the reaction of the players left to play, next weekend’s meaningless was really special,” he said. fixture on an unforgiving plastic pitch at With 25 members of his family looking humble Lorient will almost certainly see on-including his parents and wife Beckham watching from the sidelines. Victoria-Beckham admitted that his own “We have one more game officially, sons had already made off with the but it’s a plastic surface and it was only a match-day souvenirs. few years ago that I ruptured my Achilles “The boys nicked my boots and shorts (tendon). So whether or not I play, who and medal,” Beckham told Sky Sports. knows?,” said Beckham after PSG marked “The experience has been the best. I feel their Ligue 1 triumph with a 3-1 win over so lucky to have had this profession for relegated Brest. 20 years. It’s very special and to go out PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi, the like this, it could not be any more per- helmsman of Qatar’s huge financial stake fect.” Beckham said he felt humbled by in the Paris club, is convinced that the being named captain. Beckham story is over. “When the manager told me, it was “Up to the coach but basically, I think really special. To be an Englishman as that will be the last match for him,” Al- captain on a night which meant so much Khelaifi told the BBC. Beckham, who rose to the fans. It was an amazing gesture from modest beginnings in east London and I will always be thankful for it.” to amass a fortune of £165 million ($252 Last week, Beckham had helped PSG million, 195 million euros), has been to their first league title since 1994 with a linked with a raft of future career possi- win over Lyon, and then announced he B-Boy Neguin performs during the Red Bull BC One All Stars on Tour 2013 at Estacao Cultura in Campinas. www.redbullcontentpool.com bilities. would retire at the end of the season They range from promotional roles having captured a championship in a with PSG and China and British Sky fourth different league-he had already Sports television, to buying a stake in an succeeding with Manchester United, Real Ancelotti wants to American club in Major League Soccer Madrid and Galaxy. where he has already played for Los “Thanks to everyone in Paris, to all of Angeles Galaxy. my teammates, the staff and fans,” said But, as befits a sports diplomat in the Beckham at the trophy presentation. “It’s making, Beckham preferred to concen- been very special to finish my career leave PSG for Real trate on the end of his brief, five-month here. I now want to enjoy time with my stay with PSG rather than the unfamiliar family. I have all the memories I need. PARIS: Carlo Ancelotti has asked to leave Paris deal has already been done behind the scenes. However, this season he delivered on the challenges of retirement. “Paris has always been one of the Saint-Germain for Real Madrid, PSG’s sporting Saturday night, Ancelotti had refused to club’s twin objectives of winning the league The stadium gave him a standing ova- world’s most beautiful places for me and director Leonardo said yesterday. comment on his future, saying only that he and reaching the Champions League quarter- tion as he left the pitch 10 minutes from I am very sad to be leaving.” On the pitch, Ancelotti, who has long been rumoured to would meet with the club’s president in the finals. time in floods of tears at the end of an Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic be a target for Real, whose current boss Jose next few days. He was greatly aided, though, by a huge evening which had seen him handed the scored twice while Beckham had a hand Mourinho is tipped to return to Chelsea next That meeting took place on Sunday, after financial investment from the club that allowed captain’s armband by coach Carlo in the other PSG goal, a trademark, inch- season, had a meeting with club bosses earlier which BeInSport claimed a decision had indeed PSG to sign the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ancelotti. perfect corner finding Blaise Matuidi to yesterday. A subsequent report on television been made. Thiago Silva and Ezequiel Lavezzi, as well as He was saluted by a guard of honor hit the target.—AFP channel BeInSport, whose Qatari owner Nasser “Following a meeting with Nasser al-Khelaifi bringing in David Beckham on a short-term al-Khelaifi is also PSG president, said Ancelotti and Leonardo, Carlo Ancelotti will no longer be deal in January. would be leaving PSG. Paris Saint-Germain coach next season,” said a Ancelotti won two Champions League titles But Leonardo denied that, claiming the message that ran across the bottom of the and one Serie A crown with AC Milan while he Parisians want to keep hold of the Italian. “What screen on the TV channel. Ancelotti’s first six also completed a league and cup double at happened is that Carlo has asked to leave for months at PSG were largely disappointing as he Chelsea. Real Madrid. We want to keep him, he has took over a team at the top of Ligue 1, only to He has won titles in three different countries (another) year on his contract with us. No deci- see them overhauled by Montpellier to miss and is one of the most respected coaches in sion has been taken,” said Leonardo. out on the title. European football. —AFP Ancelotti has spent just 18 months at the club from the French capital and this season led them to a first Ligue 1 title since 1994. But rumours that he is set to replace Mourinho at Real when this season finishes had been gathering pace in recent weeks. Those were only enhanced yesterday morn- ing when several Spanish newspapers claimed the Portuguese boss would leave before the end of the current campaign. Madrid sports daily Marca ran the headline “he is going to Chelsea” on Sunday morning, adding that “Real Madrid could make his good- bye official this week”. Another Spanish newspaper, broadsheet El Mundo, also reported that Mourinho may not even be in charge for Real’s final two games of the season against Real Sociedad and Osasuna. “Madrid want to sack Mourinho now,” it claimed. “The board and the president, Florentino Perez, have had enough after the defeat in the final of the Copa del Rey and the tense situation in the dressing room, and are planning to bring to an end the Portuguese’s PARIS: Paris Saint Germain’s midfielder David Beckham from England, is reign immediately.” thrown in the air by his teammate at the end of their French League soccer With confirmation that Ancelotti has asked match against Brest. —AP to be allowed to join Real, it would seem some Carlo Ancelotti Enugu grab dramatic Rayo stays in hunt for CAF Cup victory Europa League with win JOHANNESBURG: Enugu Rangers of final with Burkina Faso. Nigeria snatched a dramatic 1-0 win No Egyptian club has won the nine- BARCELONA: Francisco “Piti” with Malaga banned from UEFA onto the bar. But Deportivo raised to celebrate. over CS Sfaxien of Tunisia yesterday in year Confederation Cup and the hopes Medina scored a double yester- competition next season. “We soaked up the pressure before Substitute Nelson Oliveira a CAF Confederation Cup play-off. of Ismaily or ENPPI creating history suf- day as Rayo Vallecano won 3-2 at continue fighting for something going ahead five minutes after sealed the much-needed win in Severely weakened by the absence fered serious blows. Levante to stay in the hunt for a that would be historic for this halftime when Bruno Gama stoppage time. But he then pro- of stars Chigozie Agbim and Mba, Ismaily conceded a late goal to Europa League berth. Also, club,” Jemez said. struck with a curling strike from voked the ire of the Riazor Rangers broke the deadlock just three crash 3-0 at CA Bizertin of Tunisia while Deportivo La Coruna beat visiting Espanyol made a good start at the edge of the area, sending Stadium crowd by holding his fin- minutes from time. an early brace condemned ENPPI to a Espanyol 2-0 in a tense match Deportivo with Christian Stuani coach Fernando Vazquez charg- ger to his lips in an apparent Ugonna Uzochukwu was the toast 2-0 defeat at Saint George of Ethiopia. featuring contrasting emotions. heading Sergio Garcia’s cross ing down the sideline with fists response to previous criticism he of eastern city Enugu as he scored to Bizertin, beaten by Egyptian giants Deportivo is provisionally out had received from the home fans. keep alive hopes of the trophy coming Al-Ahly in the Champions League of the relegation zone, while Real After gesturing for the stands to to Nigeria for the first time. before dropping to the Confederation Zaragoza fell into the drop zone be quiet, the young Portugal Sfaxien, three-time finalists and the Cup, exacted sweet revenge. after conceding two late goals to striker shook off his teammate’s only club to successfully defend the A goal in each half, from Kamel fall 2-1 to Athletic Bilbao. attempts to hug him in celebra- Confederation Cup, host the second Zaiem and Ali Machani, put them on Piti opened the scoring in the tion of the goal. leg at the beginning of June. top and a last-minute strike by Al-Arabi 20th minute by firing in a Zaragoza bossed the match at Goalkeeper Agbim and midfielder Gabir left Ismaily with little hope. rebound. Robert Acquafresca lev- La Romareda Stadium and went Mba were recent additions to Rangers’ Shimeles Bekele and Abebaw eled for Levante in the 52nd. ahead thanks to Helder Postiga’s squad after lengthy transfer wrangles Butako scored in Addis Ababa for the Franco Vazquez finished off a well-placed header in the 14th. with fellow Nigerian club Warri Wolves. Saints, who hope to be the first Rayo counterattack four minutes But Bilbao finally came alive And CAF Champions League-win- Ethiopian team to reach the group later, and Piti scored his team- when Fernando Llorente poked in ning coach Okey Emordi was banking stage. leading 17th goal of the season a loose ball in the 80th, and Oscar on their experience against battle- Like Bizerte, Saint George were from the penalty spot in the 72nd de Marcos dribbled by his marker sharpened African campaigners eliminated from the Champions to make it 3-1. on the end line before crossing Sfaxien. League by an Egyptian side, losing to Levante midfielder Vicente for Ibai Gomez to score the stop- But Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi Zamalek on the away-goal rule. Iborra pulled one back in the page-time winner with a deft stunned Enugu by refusing to release Big spenders TP Mazembe of the 86th to add drama to the final back-heeled flick. the duo from a national squad training Democratic Republic of Congo minutes, but Rayo held on for vic- After a disappointing season, camp in Germany. whipped surprise qualifiers LIga tory. Bilbao’s comeback victory The 2013 African champions are Muculmana 4-0 in mining hub “Piti is spectacular. Every time secured its place in the top flight preparing for a May 31 friendly against Lubumbashi. he touches the ball he creates with two rounds to go. fellow FIFA Confederations Cup quali- But no scorer was Congolese with danger,” said Rayo coach Paco Later, league champion fiers Mexico in Houston. Zambians Given Singuluma and Jemez, adding that his forward Barcelona plays Valladolid with- Nigeria also play World Cup quali- Nathan Sinkala, Ghanaian Richard has scored more goals than Real out injured top scorer Lionel fiers in Kenya and Namibia before the Kissi-Boateng and Tanzanian Mbwana Madrid stars Karim Benzema (10) Messi. Barcelona can match Real mid-June kick-off of the World Cup Samata on target. Return matches are and Gonzalo Higuain (14). Madrid’s record haul of 100 dress-rehearsal in Brazil. Mba starred at scheduled for the weekend of May 31- Rayo’s first win in six rounds points from last season if it wins the Nations Cup in South Africa, scor- June 2 and the eight surivivors qualify lifted it into eighth place in the its remaining three matches. Last- ing the quarter-finals winner against for the group stage, which kicks off in Spanish league, which currently place Mallorca hosts Real Betis Ivory Coast and the only goal of the mid-July.—AFP earns a spot in the Europa League Francisco “Piti” Medina today.—AP SPORTS MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 Celtic warm up for Cup final with closing win

GLASGOW: Celtic ended a run of six offside before he headed in a third in the Hampden. Elsewhere, Inverness The Hoops hadn’t tasted victory away Commons free-kick to nod past away matches without a win as they 27th minute as Celtic dominated. Celtic Caledonian Thistle lost out on an historic from Celtic Park since the end of Cierzniak from four yards out for his sec- warmed up for the Scottish Cup final continued their onslaught in the second first foray into European competition fol- February but they looked determined to ond of the match. with a comprehensive 4-0 defeat of half and Gary Hooper thought he had lowing a 1-0 defeat in the Highland der- put an end to that record from the start Celtic carried on after the break and Dundee United at Tannadice yesterday. added a fourth in the 53rd minute but by against Ross County. with Commons getting Celtic off to a fli- soon had the ball in the net again when With places in next weekend’s show- his effort was also chalked off after the Canadian international Andre er. Jon Daly gave away a free-kick about Samaras drilled a left-foot shot to the piece final up for grabs a strong Celtic striker had strayed offside. Hainault’s first half volley was enough to 30 yards out and Commons drilled a low back post for Hooper to tap in, but the side impressed from the start as the Substitute Anthony Stokes put the deny Terry Butcher’s side third place as powerful effort past keeper Radoslaw flag was up for offside. champions brought down the curtain icing on the cake for Celtic in the 85th goals from Liam Craig and Nigel Cierzniak with the aid of a slight deflec- Joe Ledley came close as he bulleted on a successful Scottish Premier League minute when he tried his luck from dis- Hasselbaink saw St Johnstone defeat tion. Samaras added a second when he a header towards the top right hand cor- campaign. tance, and for the third time in the Motherwell and leapfrog Inverness into found room for a shot which took a big ner from a Commons corner but Kris Commons opened the scoring in match, United keeper Radoslaw the European spots. deflection off John Souttar as it looped Cierzniak somehow managed to claw it the 11th through a long-range free-kick Cierzniak was beaten by a deflection. At Victoria Park, Paddy McCourt, who into the top corner. The Greek striker away. Celtic keeper Fraser Forster denied that took a slight deflection before The result and performance will give the is set to be released at the end of the had the ball in the net just over a minute Daly and Stuart Armstrong before Georgios Samaras added another in the Hoops a boost as they bid to complete a season, was handed a rare start by man- later but his effort was ruled out for off- Stokes finished the scoring as his 17th minute. domestic double against Hibernian in ager Neil Lennon in what was an other- side. Samaras wasn’t to be denied deflected shot flew into the bottom left- Samaras had an effort ruled out for the Scottish Cup final next Sunday at wise familiar starting line-up. though and he got on the end of a hand corner.—AFP Gunners win CL race

Newcastle 0

Arsenal 1

NEWCASTLE: Arsenal will be in the Champions League for a 16th suc- cessive year after Laurent Koscielny’s strike secured a price- less 1-0 win at Newcastle yester- day. Arsene Wenger’s team looked likely to miss out on a lucrative top LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale (right) goes down to the ground with four finish in the Premier League Sunderland’s Sebastian Larsson and earns a yellow card for diving during the English when they were seven points adrift Premier League soccer match. —AP of north London rivals Tottenham with only 10 games to play. But the Spurs suffer Euro agony Gunners’ unblemished record of qualifying for Europe’s elite club ward header and forced Simon Mignolet to competition under Wenger was save at his near post, but otherwise neither extended thanks to Koscielny’s Tottenham 1 side was capable of finding an incisive final goal early in the second half at St pass in the opening 20 minutes. James’ Park. Then Bale charged onto a forward ball It brought Arsenal their fifth from Tom Huddlestone and was wrestled to successive away win and main- Sunderland 0 the ground by Sebastian Larsson. LONDON: Arsenal’s English midfielder Theo Walcott (left) vies with Newcastle United’s French midfielder tained their excellent form in the With the crowd baying for a penalty, ref- Hatem Ben Arfa (right) during the English Premier League football match. —AFP second half of the season, a period eree Andre Marriner instead showed Bale a when they have picked up more yellow card for diving, Bale’s third this sea- loaded against Newcastle in view minute. Cazorla was given time Walcott’s free-kick was won by points than any team in the top LONDON: Gareth Bale scored another stun- son for the same offence. of Arsenal’s excellent form in and space on the edge of the area Lukas Podolski and fell perfectly for flight. ning late winner for Tottenham, but his And Sunderland almost took a shock recent weeks. They were unbeaten to meet a cross from Kieran Gibbs, French defender Koscielny to turn There was an extra edge to side’s 1-0 victory over 10-man Sunderland lead on the half hour. Danny Graham in their previous nine games and but his shot lacked conviction. and volley in via Harper’s head. Arsenal’s celebrations as their suc- was not enough to win the battle to qualify crossed low from the right and England the confidence engendered by that Newcastle’s more direct style, Newcastle’s earlier attacking for the Champions League yesterday. under-21 forward Conner Wickham met the cess came at the expense of run was soon obvious. allied to the trickery of Hatem Ben instincts had faded by now and Andre Villas-Boas’s team knew only a ball first time six yards out only for Tottenham, who finished one point Newcastle were outnumbered Arfa, brought another chance their prospects were further dam- victory at White Hart Lane, combined with Tottenham’s France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris behind the Gunners in fifth place. and outmanoeuvred in midfield which the French international aged by an injury to Yohan Cabaye, Arsenal failing to take three points from to block his shot with an instinctive save. Newcastle’s third successive where Santi Cazorla, Thomas failed to steer under the bar. who went off after only 57 min- their visit to Newcastle, would allow them Spurs were stung into action by that home defeat was a disappoint- Rosicky and Aaron Ramsey pros- Arsenal required only 30 sec- utes. Arsenal, once notorious for to leapfrog their north London rivals into reminder that they had to earn a victory, ment for a crowd of 52,354. But, pered with the security of Mikel onds of the second-half to carve their ability to grind out 1-0 wins, fourth place in the Premier League on the and Bale nearly did so when his shot from following the victory at QPR that Arteta behind them. out a better opportunity than they seemed content with that scoreline last day of the season. Aaron Lennon’s cross cannoned back off confirmed their Premier League But, for all their possession, had created in the entire opening once again, although Oxlade- But despite Bale’s superb long-range Colback. Sunderland captain John O’Shea status, the main focus for Arsenal created few tests for 45 minutes. Ramsey seized on a Chamberlain did threaten with a goal in stoppage-time following David came almost as close when his headed Newcastle was the final game of Harper in the opening stages, poor clearance by Harper to send long-range effort in the 70th Vaughan’s red card, there was only despair back-pass nearly crept past his own keeper. Steve Harper, the goalkeeper who although Koscielny did head nar- Theo Walcott clear, but Harper minute. for Spurs as Laurent Koscielny’s strike gave Spurs knew they could not let up in has spent two decades at the club. rowly wide from a 12th minute cor- made amends with a low save, Ben Arfa remained Newcastle’s Arsenal a 1-0 victory on Tyneside. their search for a goal in the second half, Captain for the day and wearing ner. Arsenal were forced to alter although he was fortunate that no best hope of a reply but his final That condemned Spurs to fifth place but they were dealt two blows in the 52nd the No.37 jersey, Harper was their midfield shape in the 28th Arsenal player was closing in on shot of the match was wayward in and a berth in the Europa League that will minute. applauded by the fans before and minute when Arteta was injured the rebound. the 70th minute. It meant Arsenal be little consolation after another narrow First Carlos Cuellar dived to block a shot after the match and received a and replaced by Alex Oxlade- If Arsenal’s followers expected it were able to cruise to a vital victory failure to qualify for Europe’s top club com- by Adebayor with his arm but no penalty remarkable standing ovation in the Chamberlain. to herald a more imaginative and without any late scares and it petition. To add to Tottenham’s frustration was awarded. And almost immediately the 37th minute. Ramsey was given a more aggressive second-half perform- would have been more convincing they had their highest-ever Premier League Sunderland supporters began to chant the In truth, Harper must have defensive role but Arsenal retained ance, they were quickly proved if Walcott had taken a glorious points total, their tally of 72 beating last news that Arsenal had taken the lead at expected a much more hectic exit their midfield edge and should right as Wenger’s team finally chance in stoppage-time instead of season’s 69, when Harry Redknapp’s team Newcastle. Tottenham still needed to score because the odds were always have gone ahead in the 31st broke through in the 52nd minute. hitting the post.—AFP finished fourth but failed to qualify for the in case of an Arsenal slip-up, and they tried Champions League because sixth-placed everything. Huddlestone volleyed wide, Chelsea won the competition and qualified then in the 62nd minute Mignolet fumbled as holders. For long periods of this game, it under challenge from Clint Dempsey and Torres gives Benitez looked as though Tottenham would hand was rescued twice by Jack Colback, who Arsenal the Champions League place as blocked Scott Parker’s shot then a follow- they struggled to find a way past a stub- up from Lennon, this time via a post. born Sunderland, whose manager, Paolo Di Mignolet redeemed himself with a flying happy Chelsea ending Canio, had threatened to delay his players’ save from a header by Dawson, who was holidays if they did not perform to his satis- later denied by a third clearance from faction. Emmanuel Adebayor had an early Colback, then Mignolet blocked another chance when he ran onto Kyle Walker’s for- shot from bale. —AFP Chelsea 2 Fitting send off Everton 1 for Carragher LONDON: Fernando Torres ensured Rafael would be relegated to the Championship Benitez’s troubled reign at Chelsea ended with a after two seasons, despite significant invest- third place finish, striking a 76th-minute winner to Liverpool 1 ment under manager Harry Redknapp. Only secure a 2-1 over Everton at Stamford Bridge on an error from the officials prevented the the final day of the Premier League season yester- home team from making a dream start yes- day. But while Benitez could reflect on a successful terday. Coutinho’s fine diving header from a end to his six-month spell at interim manager, QPR 0 Stewart Downing’s corner in the second Everton’s David Moyes experienced defeat in his minute was over the line before QPR defend- final game in charge of the Merseyside club before er Michael Harriman hacked clear. Television leaving to succeed Alex Ferguson at Manchester replays confirmed the crowd’s suspicion but United. LONDON: Liverpool gave retiring stalwart neither referee Martin Atkinson nor his lines- Benitez has failed to win over many Chelsea Jamie Carragher a fitting send off by beating man had a clear enough view to award the supporters during his six month stint as interim the Premier League’s bottom club QPR 1-0 at goal. The celebration of Carragher’s career manager but he will walk away have delivered the an emotional Anfield yesterday. inevitably lent an end-of-season air to the club into the group stage of next season’s The game brought down the curtain on game. But Jordan Henderson was booked Champions League as well as the Europa League the 35-year-old defender’s illustrious career, after just seven minutes for upending Park Ji- trophy. Juan Mata put Chelsea on course for victory LONDON: Everton’s Nigerian forward Victor Anichebe (left) vies with Chelsea’s Brazilian mid- and he was afforded a guard of honour from Sung as a reminder that three points were still in the seventh minute and Torres secured the win fielder David Luiz (right) during the English Premier League football match. —AFP both sets of teams before being handed a at stake. Coutinho, one of the January sign- that denied Arsenal the chance to move into third Howard. The chance came as the home team broke to force their way ahead in the 18th minute when memento from the opposition’s Liverpool- ings that lifted Liverpool’s season, went close place after Steven Naismith had levelled for the vis- quickly following a spell of Everton pressure, with Darron Gibson’s long range shot rebounded off the born captain Clint Hill. again with a run and shot that was deflected itors. Attention will now turn to who will succeed Oscar releasing Demba Ba on the right hand side of post and against the back of Cech’s head before Supporters on the Kop created a mosaic in past a post by a defender. Benitez and Moyes a with Jose Mourinho strongly Howard’s area. The Senegal forward produced a hitting the post again and finally bouncing away to tribute to the popular defender, who played The Brazilian, who joined in a £8million linked with a return to Chelsea while Phil Neville- low shot that the keeper was unable to hold and safety. Chelsea repeatedly threatened but the bet- 38 times for England and was making his deal from Inter Milan, eventually found the the Everton captain due to leave the club this sum- Mata reacted first to slot home from close range. ter chances continued to fall for Everton with Kevin 737th and final appearance for his only club. net after 22 minutes with a precise low drive mer and who missed this clash through injury-the Guaranteed to finish in sixth, Everton had little Mirallas spurning a great chance when he tamely Carragher, who will become a television from 30 yards which creeped just inside goal- latest name to be touted as a possible successor to to play for. But the desire to ensure Moyes’ lengthy directed a close range volley straight at Cech. pundit next season, was urged to shoot keeper Robert Green’s right-hand post. Moyes. Benitez admitted before this game his pref- reign did not end in defeat acted as a powerful The game was wide open with neither side whenever he had possession in the opposi- The referee appeared to be caught up in erence would be to remain in England-although he motivator and the visitors quickly forced their way showing any sign of producing a cagey end to the tion half and almost crowned the perfect day the mood after he failed to caution Carragher distanced himself from the vacancy at Goodison back into the match, drawing level seven minutes campaign. But it was also turning into an with a long-range shot that hit a post in the for a glaring handball during an aerial clash Park-but while the Spaniard’s future remains uncer- later. Naismith had been recalled in place of the encounter marked by glaring misses with Frank second half. But the home team had to be with Green. QPR, with only three League wins tain, his immediate priority was to ensure his six injured Leon Osman and had already spurned a Lampard-presented before the game with a goal content with a first-half goal from Philippe in a sorry campaign, offered little by way of month spell at Chelsea ended in success. good opportunity when he skied an effort wide boot to mark his feat in becoming the club’s record Coutinho to ensure their season ended on a attacking threat, although an elusive It was Chelsea’s 69th game of a gruelling season from Seamus Coleman’s cross. goalscorer-uncharacteristically failing to find the winning note. Armande Traore cross caused concern before and three of Benitez’s side-Juan Mata, Fernando But the Scotland international made sure with target after being set up by a Ba flick immediately Liverpool were already guaranteed to fin- Jose Enrique tidied up. Torres and Oscar-were making a club record 64th his next chance, pouncing onto a loose ball after a before half time. And the pattern continued after ish seventh in manager Brendan Rodgers’ first Downing showed a fine burst of pace to appearance of the campaign. moment of poor control by David Luiz before the break with Gary Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic season thanks to an unbeaten run of eight break into the penalty area and shot against There were few signs of fatigue though as they exchanging passes with Victor Anichebe and clip- denied before Everton substitute Nikica Jelavic games since March 16. the outside of a post as Liverpool looked to raced into a seventh minute lead when Mata capi- ping the ball past Petr Cech for the equaliser. somehow steering Leighton Baines’ low cross wide QPR, by contrast, had long known they seal the result on the hour.—AFP talised on a mistake by Everton goalkeeper Tim And Moyes’s side were desperately unlucky not of the far post.—AFP Ancelotti wants Gunners win to leave PSG CL race for Real18 19 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

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LONDON: Manchester United’s Scottish manager Alex Ferguson applauds the crowd as he stands amid his players at the end of the English Premier League football match between West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United at The Hawthorns. — AFP United share 10-goal epic Ferguson bows out Three minutes later, United were again afforded space on the hosts’ left West Brom 5 flank and a drilled cross from Antonio Valencia was inadvertently turned in by floundering defender Jonas Olsson. United’s fans were predictably boister- Man United 5 ous, throwing a red flare onto the pitch at one point, but their exuberance pro- voked an angry reaction from the home WEST BROMWICH: English football wit- support, with stewards and police nessed the end of an era yesterday as obliged to intervene. In contrast, the Alex Ferguson signed off as Manchester game itself was almost completely United manager with an extraordinary 5- devoid of needle, and Alexander Buttner 5 draw at West Bromwich Albion in his exploited further inattention from the 1,500th and final game. home defence to dispatch a crisp shot On a sun-kissed afternoon at The into the bottom-right corner from Tom Hawthorns, the ground with the highest Cleverley’s pass on the half hour. altitude in the Football League, the 71- James Morrison pulled a goal back in year-old Scot who propelled United to the 40th minute by sweeping in a the summit of English football on 13 Graham Dorrans cross and Lukaku cut occasions bowed out with a hectic game the deficit to a single goal by steering a full of the attacking football that he low shot past United goalkeeper Anders loves. Lindergaard five minutes after coming The champions led 3-0, and then 5-2, on at the break. but West Brom scored three times in five United responded immediately, how- minutes, with substitute Romelu Lukaku ever, with Robin van Persie converting a completing a second-half hat-trick in the Valencia cut-back to claim his 26th 86th minute to prevent Ferguson from league goal of the season before signing off with victory. Hernandez turned in a low cross from Ferguson, who amassed 38 trophies in substitute Ryan Giggs to make it 5-2. 26 and a half years at Old Trafford, will be Olsson compounded a dreadful after- joined in retirement by 38-year-old mid- noon by hoisting a volley over the bar fielder Paul Scholes, who made his 718th from only four yards, before the self- and final appearance for the club as a effacing Scholes came off the bench for 69th-minute substitute. the final game of his long and distin- Prior to kick-off, fans queued to buy guished career. souvenir edition match-day pro- Victory would have seen United equal grammes, which contained a fulsome 40- their best-ever Premier League points page tribute to Ferguson from West tally of 91 in a 38-game season, but Brom. instead, Youssouf Mulumbu and Lukaku The Scot was welcomed onto the scored twice within a minute before pitch with a guard of honour from both Lukaku bundled in Marc-Antoine sides and the hosts’ generosity did not Fortune’s cross with four minutes left to stop there, as slack defending enabled complete an incredible comeback. It was United to establish a 3-0 lead inside 30 a disappointing end to the game for minutes. Ferguson, who wore a rueful smile as he In the sixth minute, Javier Hernandez shook hands with opposite number crossed from the right and the untracked Steve Clarke before walking onto the Shinji Kagawa beat United old boy Ben pitch to say goodbye to the United fans Foster with a near-post header. for the very last time. — AFP

EPL results/standings Chelsea 2 (Mata 7, Torres 76) Everton 1 (Naismith 14); Liverpool 1 (Coutinho 23) QPR 0; Manchester City 2 (Rodwell 29, 59) Norwich 3 (Pilkington 26, Holt 54, Howson 65); Newcastle 0, Arsenal 1 (Koscielny 52); Southampton 1 (Lambert 57) Stoke 1 (Crouch 47); Swansea 0, Fulham 3 (Kacaniklik 22, Berbatov 77, Emanuelson 90); Tottenham 1 (Bale 90) Sunderland 0; West Brom 5 (Morrison 40, Lukaku 50, 81, 86, Mulumbu 81) Manchester Utd 5 (Kagawa 6, Olsson, 9- og, Buttner 30, Van Persie 53, Hernandez 63); West Ham 4 (Nolan 23, 79, 87, Vaz Te 34) Reading 2 (McCleary 53, Le Fondre 55); Wigan 2 (Boyce 21, Baker, 45-og) Aston Villa 2 (Bent 5, Vlaar 61).

English Premier League table after the season’s final round of fixtures on Sunday (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): Manchester Utd 38 28 5 5 86 43 89 West Ham 38 12 10 1645 53 46 - champions/Champions League Norwich 38 10 14 1441 58 44 Manchester City 38 23 9 6 66 34 78 Fulham 38 11 10 1750 60 43 - Champions League Stoke 38 9 15 1434 45 42 Chelsea 38 22 9 7 75 39 75 Southampton 38 9 14 1549 60 41 - Champions League Aston Villa 38 10 11 1747 69 41 Arsenal 38 21 10 7 72 37 73 Newcastle 38 11 8 1945 68 41 - Champions League Sunderland 38 9 12 1741 54 39 Tottenham 38 21 9 8 66 46 72 Wigan 38 9 9 2047 73 36 - Europa League - relegated Everton 38 16 15 7 55 40 63 Reading 38 6 10 2243 73 28 Liverpool 38 16 13 9 71 43 61 - relegated West Brom 38 14 7 1753 57 49 QPR 38 4 13 2130 60 25 Swansea 38 11 13 1447 51 46 - relegated Etihad Airways boosts services at Abu Dhabi Airport

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NEW YORK: In this photo, Trader Kevin Lodewick works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. — AP Germany perched close to recession Unemployment casts shadow over EU summit

BRUSSELS: European leaders gather this week months and counting. With regular protests in tried to use those areas where they differ the German domestic politics has paramount zone-wide “government” in terms of public for a summit overshadowed by rampant several European countries at what critics say least as the basis for agreements among the importance across the wider euro-zone. finances and economic policymaking. Berlin unemployment and the deepening euro-zone is the devastating effects of national austerity 27 EU member states. And top officials in Berlin are candid reacted coolly however: Merkel’s spokesman recession, but with hopes of breaking down programmes, governments and EU managers This time however, some diplomats think it enough to admit that Paris and Brussels said that the ideas set out in a series of resistance to a planned crackdown on tax eva- are feeling the heat. “They need to deliver will he harder for the two driving forces in the remain easy targets for blame, as seen in speeches, although hardly new, were “interest- sion. The one-day talks on Wednesday were something that sounds like it can translate trade bloc to deliver. weekend remarks on a TV debate by Finance ing” but essentially premature. dedicated weeks ago to the political fight to into jobs and soon,” one veteran EU official Germany is perched perilously close to Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Usually among Complicating matters is British Prime uncover unpaid taxes hidden away in Swiss or who has been closely involved in summit recession, France has just slipped back into the most measured of decision-makers, Minister David Cameron’s plan to hold a ref- even EU bank vaults. preparations told AFP. “Money has been recession and other EU states are also strug- Schaeuble told the audience that the EU insti- erendum on Britain’s EU membership in But days ahead of the talks, as it became announced in the past few months, but the gling. Economists stress that high unemploy- tutions were “always the slowest to react” and 2017. Armed with that prospect, he wants to clear that Austria and Luxembourg would not message doesn’t seem to have got through ment lags long after the fundamentals of eco- that, in the fight against unemployment, it wring further concessions for London from surrender precious bank records without a and there is no sign of things picking up nomic transformation have taken root. would be wise to see first what could be done the bloc. Italy’s high debt, the prospect of fight, a discussion on the EU’s energy ambi- overnight. But that is of little comfort to leaders head- bilaterally. close EU surveillance for Spain or a new tions was added to the agenda. When the “The fight against tax evasion and money- ing into elections, as Merkel is in September. France and Germany have struggled to see euro-zone bailout for Slovenia are also wor- leaders gather at the European Union head- laundering is not just bluster, but it’s fair to say That electoral battle may also act as a brake on eye-on-eye on the way forward for the shared rying the EU’s leaders. Leaders have one quarters in Brussels, overshadowing the talks it won’t deliver tomorrow,” the official added. significant EU policy efforts this year. For the currency area since Hollande took office just more, two-day summit late in June before will be the bloc’s 26 million jobless and the In the past, German Chancellor Angela Merkel moment, the opinion polls suggest that over a year ago. The Socialist French leader last the EU machinery winds down for the sum- euro-zone’s longest recession in history - 18 and French President Francois Hollande have Merkel will return to power, but in any case week renewed longstanding calls for a euro- mer holidays. — AFP Regional markets rally Stocks rise on hopeful as gains trigger buying signs for US economy

NEW YORK: Encouraging news about 3.2 percent, to $82.19 after the defense MIDEAST STOCKS the US economy extended the stock contractor said its board approved the DUBAI: Regional shares rallied yesterday “It’s a corrective move - there are some market’s rally. Small-company stocks repurchase of another $4 billion in stock, with markets in Kuwait and Doha breaking stocks undervalued after the strong selling rose the most, a sign that investors are and that it plans to buy back a quarter of key psychological levels as gains in US pressure due to the IPO news and people taking on more risk. Two companies its outstanding shares by the end of equities and oil prices spurred renewed are coming back to buy,” said Yassir Mckee, soared in their stock-market debuts in 2015. The Dow Jones industrial average buying to top off an underlying bullish sen- wealth manager at Al-Rayan Financial the latest indication that the market for rose 121.18 points, or 0.8 percent, to timent. In Saudi Arabia, the index climbed 1 Brokerage. “The market momentum is pick- initial public offerings is reviving. A 15,354.40. The index gained 1.6 percent percent, extending gains to hit a one-year ing up and we might stay over the 9,000 gauge of future economic activity rose for the week and is up 17.2 percent for high. Bluechips led the rally with eight of mark this year but we will have to see cor- more than analysts had expected, as did the year. the 10 largest firms rising. Sentiment porate earnings and performance of IPOs a measure of consumer confidence, The index started higher, then drifted turned around from last week’s selling, as in coming months for further direction.” In adding to evidence that the economy is through the rest of the morning. The upbeat global markets buoyed hopes the UAE, Abu Dhabi developers Aldar steadily recovering. index added to its gains in the after- world demand will pick up. Properties and Sorouh Real Estate rallied Stocks closed higher for a fourth noon, climbing about 70 points in the Saudi petrochemicals index climbed 0.9 14.7 and 15 percent respectively in heavy straight week. Indexes are at record lev- last two hours of the day. The Standard & percent, helped by gains in oil price - a trading - hitting the maximum limit for els after surging this year on optimism Poor’ 500 index rose 15.65 points, or 1 proxy for global economic activity and also daily gains of 15 percent. Analysts said about the economy and record corpo- percent, to 1,666.12. The gauge is up 2 demand for petrochemical products. US market talk the firms may be awarded a rate earnings. The market is also being percent this week and has gained 16.8 equities surged after consumer sentiment mega government housing project ahead supported by ongoing stimulus from the percent this year. After some lackluster in the world’s largest economy hit an of their planned merger in June triggered Federal Reserve, which is keeping long- reports on the economy Thursday, almost six-year high in early May. the buying. term borrowing costs at historically low including slowing manufacturing and an In Qatar, the main benchmark climbed 1 Aldar and Sorouh declined to comment levels. increase in applications for unemploy- percent to make it the largest one-day gain on the price movement. Abu Dhabi’s “This slow but relatively steady ment benefits, Friday’s reports were a in three weeks and finished just above the benchmark climbed 1.4 percent, while growth, that keeps inflation in check and tonic for investors. psychologically important 9,000 level. The Dubai’s index advanced 2.5 percent - hit- keeps interest rates low, is actually a The Conference Board said its index market, up 7.8 percent year-to-date, is ting fresh multi-year highs. “(There’s) no pretty healthy environment for the stock of leading economic indicators rose 0.6 beginning to catch up with regional peers looking back as regional markets, especial- market,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief percent last month after a revised as attractive valuations draw in investors. ly the UAE and Kuwaiti markets, seem to be investment strategist at Charles Schwab decline of 0.2 percent in March. The Doha’s market tumbled to a 2013 low in catching a second wind in their momen- & Co. “Right now we are very optimistic.” index is intended to predict how the mid-April ahead of a planned listing of sov- tum buying,” investment firm Al-Masah General Motors rose $1.03, or 3.2 per- economy will be doing in three to six ereign assets under a new firm called Doha Capital said in a note. cent, to $33.42. The automaker’s stock is months. The University of Michigan’s Global Investment Co. Investors looking to Investors tend to sell in May ahead of a trading above the $33 price of its preliminary survey of consumer confi- subscribe in the initial public offering slow summer and travel abroad to escape MADRID: A protestor wears a mouth-guard reading November, 2010 initial public offering dence climbed to 83.7. Economists had cashed out of existing positions, but delays the searing desert heat but, this year, the “Public healthcare system” during a demonstration for the first time in two years. predicted that the gauge would climb to on a May listing for the firm brought back trend seems to have broken as chasing against government-imposed austerity measures and Northrop Grumman gained $3.17, or 76.8. — AP buying interest. gains takes the lead. — Reuters labor reforms yesterday. — AP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 BUSINESS

Int’l investors should AWB, NBK’s subsidiary in Egypt, focus on global small, mid-cap companies reports 15.3% growth in profits

By Hayder Tawfik KUWAIT: Al-Watany Bank of Egypt (AWB), strengthen its position in the Egyptian mar- the subsidiary of National Bank of Kuwait ket.” AWB, a member of NBK Group, was lobal small and mid - cap equities have been Group (NBK) in Egypt, reported net profits established in 1980 and has a large branch performing much better than big-cap compa- of EGP 86.6 million in the first quarter of network situated at strategic locations Gnies throughout the world. Most investors are 2013 compared with EGP 75.1 million in within the various Egyptian governorates still concerned about volatility and liquidity so they the same period last year, an increase of and cities, including Cairo. still remain largely focusing on big cap stocks. Overall, 15.3 percent year-on-year. NBK has the widest banking presence since 2008 most equity markets have been on a roller As of end of March 2013, ROA increased with more than 170 branches worldwide. coaster ride and this has put off investors from enter- to 1.98 percent compared with 1.82 per- NBK’s international presence spans many of ing the markets. Unfortunately many international cent at the end of March 2012, and ROE the world’s leading financial centers includ- investors have missed out on a big rally that is still increased to 22.08 percent from 17.90 per- ing London, Paris, Geneva, New York and continuing till today. cent a year earlier. Isam Al-Sager, NBK Singapore, as well as China (Shanghai). Those who dared to enter Group Deputy CEO and AWB Chairman said Meanwhile, regional coverage extends to the market invested main- that “AWB’s strong results reflect the suc- Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Bahrain, ly in the big multinational cess of NBK’s regional expansion despite Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Turkey. companies in the hope the difficult operating environment in NBK continues to collectively enjoy the that their global business Egypt and the region.” highest ratings among all banks in the diversification will shield “AWB has once again proved its ability Middle East from the three international to post strong profits despite the unfavor- rating agencies; Moody’s, Fitch Ratings and them from any economic able and challenging situation in Egypt, Standard and Poor’s. The Bank’s ratings are down turn. At present, I which reflects the bank’s strength and solid supported by its high capitalization, pru- advise strongly that they financial position,” added Al-Sager. “AWB dent lending policies, and its disciplined start investing in small has been one of the fastest growing banks approach to risk management, in addition and mid-cap listed com- in Egypt over the past few years and is to its highly recognized and very stable panies around the world. Isam Al-Sager moving forward with its strategy to management team. Yasser Hassan There are many potential advantages to investing in small-cap stocks. Historically, small-cap stocks have provided better long-term returns than large-cap stocks. Most international investors are more familiar UK opposition wants with their domestic small and mid cap companies China becomes leader than international ones. Despite relatively poor per- country-by-country formance in the past couple of years, small and mid in patent applications biz tax reporting cap stocks have shown stronger returns relative to large-cap stocks over longer periods of time. This out- LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labour party, tap- performance is quite logical given that small and mid- KCIC WEEKLY ASIA ANALYSIS ping into widening public anger over corporate tax cap stocks are mostly growth orientated and have the avoidance, wants the government to push for new potential to grow their earning much faster than big hina recently became the world’s international rules to force companies to report companies. leader in patent applications, profit and tax payments country-by-country. The compelling long term returns of small and mid Caccording to the World Campaigners say the move, which is receiving cap equities have been with some drawbacks. Risky, Intellectual Property Organization increased support internationally despite strong that is how most investors see them. The term risky is (WIPO). In 2010 China surpassedJapan opposition from business, would deter companies referred to the volatility accompanies small and mid- and, in 2011, the US. The surge in from shifting profit into tax havens where they have no staff or sales. cap stocks. But for small investors the term risk means patents in China comes as a result of the Prime Minister David Cameron has said corpo- the loss of the capitalinvested. However, to be assured steep increase in research spending that rate tax avoidance will be discussed at the annual of principal protection, a long-terminvestment hori- has been taking place over the last years. Rising wages havemade China summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial zon is well advised. Apple Inc. can be a great case economies, which Britain is hosting next month in study. Therefore in my opinion investors with time lose part of its competitiveness.Since 2000 the cost of one hour of work in real Northern Ireland. He has urged companies to be horizon of more than say three years should allocate terms has increased by 136 percent in more transparent but has only proposed voluntary some money to global small and mid-cap stocks. China, whilst in a developed country like measures. Investing in global small and mid-cap stocks gives the US, it has come down by 13 percent. Companies say country-by-country reporting investors the geographical flexibility and the availabili- Using other developing economies as a would impose unreasonable administrative bur- ty of stocks on a much wider scale. This in itself is a benchmark, Chinese wages are also ris- dens. But campaigners say firms fear being embar- form of country and sector diversification, hence low- ing fast. For instance in the 2003-2010 rassed by highlighting how they frequently pay er volatility. The expanded universe of investable period, Chinese salaries rose twice as low or no taxes in countries where they have big sales and how they report big profits in tax havens. choice of companies offered by moving down to small much as Indians’. By stepping up its patents in force. In Europe and the US, percent respectively. Whilst China may The standard could also lead to companies reveal- and mid-cap stocks allows investors to look at a much spending on research and develop- about half of the patent applications are have been contributing the most to the ing that they earned no money in countries where bigger range of investment opportunities on a global ment, China wants to move away from filed by foreigners. In China, the number growth and may have become the they told investors they operated profitably. Coffee scale. Most equity research houses focusing their competition in the low value added end of foreigners applying for a patent has world’s leading patent filing country, chain Starbucks received broad political, media attention on big cap stocks and as a result many small- of the manufacturing sector and attract been in decline recently, but the num- this does not necessarily mean that and public criticism in Britain last year after a more technological foreign direct er well run companies are simply not being covered. ber of filings by locals has jumped to China has suddenly become the most Reuters investigation showed it assured investors This lack of research coverage tends to make small investment. The country is on the right three-quarters of the total. However, the innovative country in the world.The the United Kingdom was a profitable market after and mid-cap stocks less efficient portion of the mar- track; the percentage share of workers quality of the patents may be at stake in abnormally high numbers were no telling tax authorities its operations lost money. ket hence giving investors more opportunities to working in the higher value added China. There is no set way of measuring doubt driven by the government’s The European Union agreed earlier this year to invest in potentially great mispriced stocks. products sector has increased from 34 the quality of a particular patent, but a incentives to promote innovation, and force European banks to report profit on a country- Remarkably, small and mid-cap stocks have per- percent of the total manufacturing rough way of determining a patent’s the opportunity to get granted some by-country basis as part of measures to ensure formed well in inflationary times and performed workforce in 1999 to almost 50 percent value would be to find out the number extra cash in the form of subsidies may they hold enough capital. The U.S. and EU have even better when coming out of recession. So get- in 2012. of places applicants sought for a patent have spurred a rise in lower quality also agreed measures to force companies in the ting the time right before investing in those stocks The World Intellectual Property for the same product and/or technolo- patent applications, which the local extractive industries to publish tax and other pay- Organization is a UN body which moni- can be very important. gy. The more the number of places, the patent office has a tendency to approve ments to resource-rich nations, to reduce corrup- tors 125 patent offices. Applying for a Small-cap companies are generally more flexible more the invention is deemed to be without much scrutiny. Thus, whilst the tion. Labour yesterday issued a new policy docu- patent is generally regarded as a good worth in value. However, if applicants level of US and Japanese patents may and nimble so they can change or modify their busi- ment on corporate tax reform which backed forc- gauge of the level of technological are just after the subsidies attached to have fallen below that of China’s, they ness strategies and can easily reposition their busi- ing companies to publish figures on revenues, innovation in major economies. In 2011, the patents, as it might be China’s case, are of higher quality: patents in the US ness products to meet demands much faster when profit and taxes in each country that they operate. for the second year in a row, global fil- then it is unlikely that they will seek for may be filed for more innovative ideas, Ernst & Young, one of the ‘big four’ accounting coming out of recession. ings growth was over 7 percent, due in patents in more than one place. in China they are increasingly being firms which audit most of the big multinational For investors who are thinking of investing in small large part to the surge in filings in China, Compared to Europe and the US, only a filed for minor improvements, utility companies, has warned clients that country-by- and mid-cap stocks away from their domestic market, which has dominated 72 percent of the few Chinese inventors would apply for models or design. Needless to say how- country reporting may become a global standard we recommend that they look at global small and world’s patent-filing growth between the protection of their ideas abroad. ever, having lower quality patents unless they come up with an alternative. mid-cap companies that are listed in the developed 2009 and 2011; the US contributed 16 Between 2005 and 2009, less than 5 per- occurs in transition phases, when an Britain’s CBI business lobby group has urged markets and have a good track record in earning percent. At least one-million patents cent of the total applicants did, whilst in economy is gradually moving from businesses to publish “narrative” reports explaining growth and profitability. were granted in 2011: Japan approved the US and Europe, numbers were far being manufacturing-driven to being their tax affairs to the public. —Reuters the most and the US had the most higher, at 27 percent and more than 40 driven by innovation. EXCHANGE RATES

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MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 BUSINESS Europe heads into longest recession since 1995 NBK WEEKLY MONEY MARKET REPORT he dollar continued its rally this 103.30. On the Commodity side, gold points from 36.3 in April missing econo- United Kingdom Index, that BOE stated that “CPI inflation week and took out 2012 highs aid- started for the week at 1,448.19 only to mists forecast of a rise to 38.3. The gain UK Unemployment remains above the 2 percent target and is Ted by strong US consumer confi- find resistance and drop to a low of however was a significant improvement Britain’s unemployment rate increased set to edge higher over coming months. dence. There was more talk of the ECB 1,355.10. The drop in gold was supported over last month’s steep fall from 48.5. The to 7.9 percent in the three months ending Inflation is likely to stay above the target easing which helped global equity mar- by worse than expected economic fig- ZEW president said the sideways action in February, and wages growth slowed for much of the next two years, bolstered kets sustain a continuous increase. In the ures from China. was probably due to the latest interest down to a record low, suggesting that the by external price pressures. Inflation is US, Sarah Bloom, a member of the Board rate cut by the ECB, however he expects labor market is facing problems at a time however expected to fall back to around of Governors of the Federal Reserve, said US consumer price index a recovery to set in during spring and when BOE is split on whether or not it 2 percent in the latter part of the forecast that the US Economy continues to recov- US Consumer Price Index fell in April then continue towards the summer. He should implement an additional stimulus period, as external price pressures fade er from the effects of the financial crisis by the most in over 4 years, as fuel prices also said that the “conditions for package to create jobs and spur econom- and a gradual revival in productivity and deep recession, though at a slower retreated. The CPI dropped 0.4 percent, Germany to enter recovery are very ic growth. Those who oppose the stimu- growth curbs increases in domestic costs”. than expected pace. Moreover, she the biggest decline since December good”. lus package are worried that it might added that the recovery appears to have 2008, after falling 0.2 percent in March, Japan picked up steam notably in the housing according to Labor Department figures. Gross domestic product sector. Bloom noted that the latest tight- The data came better than 0.3 percent better than expected ening in the Federal Fiscal Policy that is drop economists forecasted. Signs of Japan’s economy expanded for a sec- represented in spending cuts associated light inflation pressures could strengthen ond straight quarter, as consumer spend- with sequestration will likely hamper the the case for the Fed to maintain its mon- ing and export gains improve driven by improvement of the US GDP growth this etary policy path. private consumption as the government’s year. Because of these factors, Bloom aggressive economic policies, started to stated, “the Federal Reserve will continue US producer price index have a positive effect on the economy. to conduct monetary policy so as to pro- Producer Prices had its largest drop Japan’s annualized GDP increase of 3.5 mote a stronger economic recovery in since April 2010 as gasoline and food percent was better than median forecast the context of price stability”. costs fell, pointing to weak inflation pres- of 2.8 percent growth. Private consump- In Europe, the latest GDP data indicate sures that should give the Federal tion that made 60 percent of GDP con- that euro-zone is passing through the Reserve room to keep monetary policy tributed 2.3 percent to the jump. Asian longest recession since 1995. Acting on very accommodative. The seasonally shares continued to climb after the Europe’s Financial Crisis, the French adjusted Producer Price Index fell 0.7 Japanese economy indicated acceleration President Hollande outlined a two-year percent last month, marking the biggest in the first quarter of 2013. plan to give the euro-zone a centralized decline in three years. Analysts had fore- “economic government”. In the FX mar- casted a drop of 0.6 percent. Japans private sector kets, the dollar maintained its upward Euro-zones longest cause an additional upward drift in infla- machinery orders momentum, with the USD index reach- US industrial production recession since 1995 tion as well as weakening the Pound fur- Japan’s core private-sector machinery ing a 3-year high of 84.37 against a bas- The US Industrial production declined The euro-zone’s Flash Gross Domestic ther. orders, which exclude volatile demand ket of currencies. The strength in the dol- in April by the most in eight months. A Product fell 0.2 percent in the first quar- from electric utilities and for ships, lar was attributed to the expectation that report from the Federal Reserve said that ter of 2013 slightly worse than the 0.1 Overview of the BOE Inflation jumped 14.2 percent in the month of the European Central Bank could intro- production at mines, factories and utili- percent contraction expected by econo- Report May 2013 March after a 4.2 percent jump in duce negative deposit rate, which ties dropped 0.5 percent, well below mists. This is the sixth straight quarter of In its Inflation Report for May 2013, the February, marking the second straight pushed the Euro currency to a six-week market expectations of a decline of 0.2 contraction and marks the longest EU Bank of England noted, “the economic month-on-month gain, and the largest low of 1.2795. percent. The drop was attributed to the recession on records since 1995. recovery remains weak and uneven. gain since April 2005. The improvement The Sterling Pound started the week ongoing recession in the euro-zone and Economies in France, Italy, Spain, Finland Domestic demand increased moderately at 1.5384 only to lose momentum and slower demand in China that has and Netherlands shrank while the during 2012, but this was largely offset by was due to the latest weakness in the drop to a low 1.5156 on worse than reduced the demand on US exports. German economy managed to grow at a pronounced fall in exports. Japanese Yen that helped increase expected employment figures alongside 0.1 percent during the first quarter. Employment continued to grow strongly. exports and the rising stock prices that comments from the Bank of England Europe Commenting on Europe’s Financial Crisis, The weakness of productivity suggested made investors more confident to invest. indicating that the UK economic recov- German investment morals rise the French President, Francois Hollande, that the financial crisis may still be weigh- ery remains weak and uneven. The The ZEW Indicator of Economic outlined a two-year plan to give the ing on the current effective supply capac- Kuwait Japanese Yen continued its nine-month Sentiment for Germany has moved side- euro-zone a centralized “economic ity of the economy as well as on demand”. The USDKD opened at 0.28650 yester- drop against the dollar, reaching a low of ways in May 2013. Indeed, it rose to 36.4 Government”. In regards to the Consumer Price day morning. Greece enters sixth year of recession

ATHENS: Data released last week showed money into state coffers, Greek officials say pri- Castillo said this week. “But major risks remain in Greece entered its sixth straight year of reces- vatisation is needed to bring investment into terms of political stability, reform application sion, but there is now cautious optimism about companies to help spur growth and job creation. and external shocks,” he added. the economy’s prospects although unemploy- Unemployment in the country has climbed to The state statistics agency on Wednesday ment is still hitting record highs and consumers 27 percent, a level unseen in Greece’s modern said Greece’s economy had contracted by 5.3 are squeezed by pay cuts and tax hikes. On history, with the rate at over 64 percent among percent in the first quarter of 2013 in an annual Tuesday, Greece’s battered debt ratings received the young. Samaras said the austerity “is reach- comparison. The equivalent contraction in the a rare upgrade from Fitch which noted “clear ing a level of unbelievable social pain and dra- first quarter of 2012 had been 6.7 percent of out- progress” on eliminating deficits. matic problems in the area of social cohesion.” put, the agency said. “The first-quarter estimate Relations with sceptical creditors have been Under the terms of its economic bailout, Athens of Greek GDP and the credit rating upgrade by repaired in recent months, permitting Greece to must cut another 4,000 state-sector jobs this Fitch suggests that the economy may finally be draw successive loan instalments from the euro- year and 11,000 in 2014. turning a corner,” London-based analysts Capital zone in return for bringing reforms back on On three occasions this year, Samaras’ gov- Economics said in a note. “But we still think that track. Foreign hedge funds are helping Greek ernment has enacted emergency decree to the economic forecasts underpinning the rescue BEIJING: This picture shows a man resting in front of a billboard at the China banks to recapitalise after a damaging state debt thwart strikes from sailors, transport workers package are too optimistic, implying that doubts International Exhibition and Symposium on Police Equipment and Anti-Terrorism write-down last year. And a long-delayed privati- and teachers. “Economic indicators should begin about the Greek bail-out may return again in Technology and Equipment (CIPATE). — AFP sation programme is finally getting off the to slowly improve,” Natixis analyst Jesus del time,” they added. — AFP ground, enabling Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to embark on a four-day journey to China eyes profit China this week in search of new investments. “We are now more than half the way through to make a real comeback,” Samaras said in a from police budget speech at the Chinese academy of social sci- ences in Beijing. “I wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t BEIJING: Mannequins in riot gear, armoured pick up mobile phone signals to secret bug- turned in Greece our ship around,” the PM said, cars and drones line a police equipment and ging devices and drone aircraft. One remote- noting that Greek bond spreads-the gauge for “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in controlled helicopter had a starting price of country risk-have receded by about two-thirds Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China’s 100,000 yuan. “Police departments across from record levels a year ago. huge internal security budget. The country is China are already using it,” said a salesman for In 2008, Greece signed with Chinese shipping estimated to have more than 180,000 the Beijing-based company Seven Dimension giant Cosco a 35-year concession agreement to protests each year and the ruling Communist Information. It is not only domestic firms run two container terminals at Piraeus, the main Party spends vast sums on ensuring order- who supply the market. Greek port. Now, Greece is hoping to entice more even than on its military, the largest in Inspirational music flowed from a display Chinese interest in the privatisation of Athens the world. of Mercedes police vehicles, while Ford and International Airport and the sale of railways and Shields, batons, gun-sights on wooden Hyundai cars emblazoned with the word real estate. “Greek ports, Greek airports, and rifles and more were on display at the event “Police” sat on raised white podiums. One stall Greek railways can be a part of large commercial last week, where the capital’s own police displayed an apparently Australian-made network extending way beyond Greece in the force promoted a lie-detection system. Two drone with a built-in video camera, and pic- European hinterland,” Samaras said. men in black uniforms marked “SWAT” tures of residential districts taken by the light- Athens also hopes to pitch the state’s gas dis- inspected a pair of night-vision goggles, weight craft lined the walls. Western compa- tributor to Russian investors and water compa- while a group of policemen who said they nies have in the past been the focus of criti- nies to French firms. In return for two EU-IMF were from Jiangxi province in the south cism for helping Chinese authorities set up bailouts worth 240 billion euros ($309 billion), looked on as a bomb-disposal robot was put vast surveillance systems. “I think surveillance Greece has pledged to raise 9.5 billion euros in through its paces. “The country is giving technology is something that is growing in asset sales by 2016. But in addition to bringing THESSALONIKI: A street musician sleeps on a bench at a busy street in Greece. — AP huge support to police spending,” said Lu Hui, our concerns,” said Kaye Stearman, of Britain- a salesman for “Robostep”, a two-wheeled based advocacy group Campaign Against the self-balancing scooter akin to a Segway, Arms Trade. which he said was used by police patrolling A ban on EU arms exports to China-intro- Beijing’s Tiananmen square. duced as a reaction to the Tiananmen crack- Japan’s rebound a recipe for Europe? Another stall sold wireless microphones it down-does not outlaw exports of many tech- claimed are used to pick up disturbances in nologies which could be used for internal PARIS: The recovery of the ment under Prime Minister Abe .. of any policy which could spark the ing “even the Americans are asking the square, under tight security since 1989, repression, she added. Analysts say that the Japanese economy, just as a reces- are working,” said Schulz. Under hyperinflation that afflicted the themselves if the artificially created when it was the scene of huge pro-democra- rise in security spending has matched a sion in Europe digs in, is renewing new leadership appointed by country between the world wars. recovery is sustainable. Letting the cy demonstrations later crushed by authori- growth in protests around China. The country pressure on European policymakers Shinzo Abe, the Bank of Japan has And coupled with this German- printing presses roll won’t help! The ties, killing hundreds. “Our government had an estimated 180,000 demonstrations-or to shift course from austerity to recently launched a programme of led caution on monetary policy, excessive liquidity will create a new makes an annual budget for public security, “mass incidents”-in 2010 and numbers have stimulus. Data released on Thursday quantitative easing to double the eurozone countries are pursuing speculative bubble.” and we have a much bigger budget than risen since, according to academics. Chinese showed Japan’s economy grew money supply with massive pur- austerity policies to cut budget Analysts at Capital Economics before,” said salesman Ryan Fan, standing in authorities have to increase police manpower markedly in the first quarter, only chases of assets including govern- deficits and debt while trying to noted that the return to growth in front of a display of black security vests, bul- to “take care of fast-growing mass protests on weeks after a new government and ment bonds. make their economies more effi- Japan might induce tax increases, letproof helmets and clear plastic shields. the streets and ‘potential’ threats on the a new team at the central bank set The programme has weakened cient and competitive. But instead pushing down consumption and “These products are mainly for anti-riot Internet”, said Chih-Jou Jay Chen, a researcher about stoking the world’s third- the yen by over a quarter in the of austerity and restructuring, the economy back into recession. policemen,” he added. at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. Government biggest economy. past six months, encouraging Tokyo is pushing fiscal and mone- But amid the praise for Abenomics, China’s domestic security budget across departments responsible for maintaining sta- The 0.9-percent quarter-on- exports and leading the Japanese tary stimulus, even with a debt load the EU has been moving to temper quarter growth-or 3.5 percent if the consumer to spend more. The gov- more than twice the size of its econ- austerity, a policy now widely criti- all levels of government is 769 billion yuan bility have “asked, seized, and fought for pow- data were stretched over a year- ernment has also added fiscal stim- omy. cised for making the downturn ($125 billion) this year, more than the country er and resources” in recent years, he told AFP. confirmed Japan’s exit from reces- ulus and pledged reforms to boost worse. With this in mind, Portugal, officially plans to spend on its armed forces, China‘s new head of public security Meng sion after a decade of lost growth competitiveness. Japan is taking a Europe should give ‘further Spain and now France have won and an increase of more than 200 billion yuan Jianzhu was not given a seat on the ruling and deflation. The Japanese econo- page out of the playbook of the US thought’ to quantitative easing more time from Brussels to cut since 2010. Communist Party’s Politburo Standing my has grown only an average of Federal Reserve, which also under- “The monetary policy of quanti- their public deficits as growth in the Billions of the internal security budget, Committee, its highest-ranking body, during 0.85 percent per year over the past took a massive quantitative easing tative easing has produced benefi- euro-zone continues to languish, which also covers mundane items such as the country’s recent leadership transition, two decades. “What a difference,” programme. But Europe has been cial results in the United States...” though on condition they still pur- food safety and running courts, is earmarked prompting speculation that the security remarked Berenberg bank senior the odd man out. French Industrial Renewal Minister sue reforms. European Commission for “stability maintenance”, a term used to jus- apparatus may be reined in. But vendors at economist Christian Schulz. “A day In Frankfurt, the European Arnaud Montebourg said recently. President Jose Manuel Barroso said the fair did not expect any spending cuts. tify arresting protesters and surveillance of after the euro-zone announced Central Bank operates under tight “But the inflationary risk is zero and last month that while the choice of dissidents. “We have a lot more to spend, par- “The money will continue to increase, the sta- another quarter of recession as it restrictions in its statutes which are European monetary policy can austerity “is fundamentally right, I ticularly on anti-terrorism,” said one of the bility maintenance model will continue,” said takes the hard route of austerity heavily influenced by a strong finally do it,” said Montebourg at a think it has reached its limits in Jiangxi police delegation, declining to be Chen Dahai, a former detective who left the and reform, Japan’s Abenomics German aversion to anything that debate with the former chief econ- many aspects, because ... it has to named because of the nature of his work. force to sell fingerprint-detecting devices. showed the easy way out,” he said. smacks of printing money. omist at the European Central Bank, have the minimum of political and Dozens of vendors offered the latest in “The police have a lot more money, they can “The policies of the new govern- Germans remain highly suspicious Juergen Stark. Stark disagreed, say- social support.” —AFP surveillance technology, from scanners which barely spend it all.” — AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 BUSINESS Etihad Airways boosts services, operations at Abu Dhabi Airport with new acquisitions

ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways, the The companies, which employ Abu Dhabi’s aviation industry in gen- ness entities. Mr Hogan added: “We national airline of the United Arab more than 4,000 people, are being eral as envisioned in the Abu Dhabi are delighted to welcome employees Emirates, has finalised the agreement integrated into the airline’s existing Plan 2030. from ADAS, ADIFC and ADCC to the to acquire three airport services com- organisational structure to maximise “It is once again in line with our growing Etihad family. The acquisi- panies which will accelerate and con- synergies and operational scale. The strategy of working closely with our tion is a very positive development solidate the development of in-flight re-engineered business units will partners and service providers to for the airline, for the three subsidiary catering services, ground handling continue to provide the full range of achieve greater organisational and companies, and for their employees, and cargo operations at Abu Dhabi ground handling, catering and cargo commercial alignment and a more who will have access to increased International Airport. services to Etihad Airways and other consistent delivery of products and benefits, career enhancement oppor- Formerly part of Abu Dhabi airlines at Abu Dhabi International services along the entire value chain tunities and training as the organisa- Airports Company (ADAC), the three Airport, dedicated to customer excel- of the customer’s experience. Airline tion continues to grow.” companies, Abu Dhabi Airport lence and commercial viability. and cargo customers will also benefit A transition process is in place and Services (ADAS), Abu Dhabi In-Flight James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ from enhanced service levels and it is ‘business as usual’ as Etihad con- Catering (ADIFC), and Abu Dhabi President and Chief Executive Officer, greater integration across hub opera- tinues to work closely with its new Cargo Company (ADCC), are being said: “This acquisition follows interna- tions.” and existing employees and cus- incorporated, subject to receipt of tional best practice and is critical to The acquisition will provide signif- tomers, ensuring that there is no dis- regulatory approvals, into Etihad the continued growth of the airline, icant incremental revenue opportuni- ruption to existing services during Airport Services, a wholly owned sub- and more importantly to the sus- ties, cost savings, and operational the integration period while benefits sidiary of Etihad Airways. tained growth and development of efficiencies across the various busi- are delivered immediately.

MENLO PARK: In this file photo, provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, (center) rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. — AP A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus NEW YORK: It was supposed to be our IPO, year ago. But last fall Facebook hired several the people’s public offering. Facebook, the companies that collect and analyze data relat- brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered ed to people’s online and offline behavior. into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was Facebook’s advertisers can now assess going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than whether a Crest ad you saw on Facebook like- McDonald’s, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it ly led you to buy of a tube of toothpaste in was all made possible by our friendships, the drugstore. The services take what photos and family ties. Then came the IPO, Facebook knows about you and what ads you and it flopped. Facebook’s stock finished its saw and combine this with the information first day of trading just 23 cents higher than retailers have about you and what you’ve pur- its $38 IPO price. It hasn’t been that high chased through loyalty cards and the like. since. Advertisers are also making use of Even amid the hype and excitement sur- Facebook’s partnership with audience meas- rounding Facebook’s May 18 stock market urement firm Nielsen Co. Nielsen introduced debut a year ago, there were looming doubts. a tool last fall that helps marketers discover Investors wondered whether the social net- “not only who saw their ad online and who work could increase advertising revenue saw their ad on TV, but also how these audi- without alienating users, especially those ences match up,” says David Wong, vice presi- using smartphones and tablet computers. dent at product leadership at Nielsen. The worries intensified just days before the Sean Bruich, Facebook’s head of measure- IPO when General Motors said it would stop ment platforms and standards, believes the paying for advertisements on the site. The new tools are paying off. “What we can see symbolic exit cast a shroud over Facebook conclusively a year after the IPO is that ads on that still exists. Facebook’s market value is $63 Facebook really do help drive people into the billion, some two-thirds of what it was the store and help them make purchasing deci- morning it first began trading. At around $27 sions, help influence their purchasing deci- per share, the company’s stock is down sions,” he says. roughly 30 percent from its IPO price. A recent Nielsen analysis found that con- Meanwhile, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index is sumers are 55 percent more likely to recall up 27 percent over the same period. “social ads” than traditional online ads. So Despite its disappointing stock market powerful is Facebook’s new analytic arsenal performance, the company has delivered that privacy advocates are growing con- strong financial results. Net income increased cerned about the potential intrusiveness of 7 percent to $219 million in the most recent merging consumers’ online and offline experi- quarter, compared with the previous year, ences. and revenue was up 38 percent to $1.46 bil- People “are getting served ads based on lion. The world’s biggest online social net- things they didn’t put on Facebook and work has also kept growing to 1.1 billion maybe wouldn’t be comfortable putting on users. Some 665 million people check in Facebook,” says Rainey Reitman, activism every day to share photos, comment on news director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, articles and play games. Millions of people a nonprofit civil-liberties firm. Facebook says around the world who don’t own a computer mechanisms are in place to protect privacy. use Facebook, in Malawi, Malaysia and “We’ve never had anything like Facebook,” Martinique. Reitman says. “We’ve never had an entity that And much has changed at Facebook in a was able to collect so much information on so year. The company’s executives and engineers much of the world’s population, ever.” have quietly addressed the very doubts that Advertisers aren’t complaining. “Anywhere dogged the company for so long. Facebook that more than a billion people spend time began showing mobile advertisements for with their friends each month is extremely the first time just after the IPO. It launched a valuable to us,” says Brad Ruffkess, connection search feature in January and unveiled a strategist at Coca-Cola. At Procter and branded Facebook smartphone in April. The Gamble, the world’s biggest advertiser, “we company also introduced ways for advertisers saw almost from the start that social media is to gauge the effectiveness of their ads. the world’s largest focus group,” says Marc Even GM has returned as a paying adver- Pritchard, the company’s global brand build- tiser. Now, Facebook is looking to its next ing officer. challenge: convincing big brand-name con- Both companies are important advertisers sumer companies that advertisements on a on Facebook and members of the company’s social network are as important - and as effec- client council, a group of more than a dozen tive - as television spots. “We aspire to have brands and ad agencies that have met regu- ads, to show ads that improve the content larly with Facebook executives since 2011 to experience over time,” Facebook CEO Mark talk about advertising and marketing on the Zuckerberg told analysts recently. “And if we site. Other members include Unilever, AT&T, continue making progress on this, then one Walmart and GroupM North America, a sub- day we can get there.” sidiary of advertising agency giant WPP. To achieve those aims, the company has Still, some advertisers remain skeptical. rolled out tools to help advertisers target Ryan Holiday, director of marketing at their messages more precisely than they can American Apparel, is critical of Facebook’s in print or on television. Companies can sin- “sponsored stories.” These are messages from gle out 18- to 24-year-old male Facebook marketers that are interwoven into users’ users who are likely to buy a car in the next news feeds. He says the clothing company six months. They can target 30-year-old spends less than 10 percent of its online women who are researching Caribbean get- advertising budget with Facebook. One thing aways. is increasingly clear: The future belongs to Analytic tools like these weren’t available a mobile advertising. —AP S Africa’s NUM seeks 15-60% wage increase

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s National ground in a submission to the country’s Union of Mineworkers said it would seek Chamber of Mines, a copy of which was pay rises of up to 60 percent from gold and seen by Reuters. coal producers, raising the prospect of Elize Strydom, the industrial relations fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and adviser at the Chamber of Mines, said the falling prices in an already heated labour minimum wage for surface workers is cur- climate. Africa’s biggest economy is hoping rently 4,700 rand and for underground min- to avoid the 2012 wildcat strike action at ers it is 5,000 rand, so the demands for the platinum and gold mines that cost billions latter are 60 percent. NUM also said it in lost revenue and production and killed wanted 15 percent increases for “all other over 50 people. wage categories”, or more experienced and Mineworkers are mobilizing to assert skilled workers. Sliding precious metals themselves, with the NUM fighting a chal- prices have raised the pressure on miners lenge to its once near monopoly in the as they ready for pay talks. Spot platinum shafts from the Association of Mineworkers on Friday closed at $1,450 an ounce, down and Construction Union (AMCU), which has around 35 percent from a record high of poached tens of thousands of platinum $2,240 hit in March 2008, and most South miners from it in a violent struggle for African shafts are losing money at this members. NUM said it was seeking an price. Gold is down about 19 percent this entry-level minimum monthly wage of year, losing its safe haven allure on concern 7,000 rand ($750) for gold and coal surface the US central bank will end its extensive workers and 8,000 rand for those under- stimulus for the US economy.—Reuters MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 BUSINESS Boosting Ethiopia’s growing economy, one shoe at a time Burgeoning enterprises transform expansion across Africa

ADDIS ABABA: For Bethlehem Tilahun, the also remains one of the top recipients of aid in same thing that everybody is doing and I don’t answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or Africa. Today, the Ethiopian government is keen make a difference, there is no change.” sympathy or donations from the West. It’s shoes. on boosting private investment, increasing trade Shoes, she said, are the perfect homegrown Specifically, building a successful shoe manufac- and transforming the agriculture-based econo- product since they can be produced entirely turing business that creates jobs, empowers my into an industry-based one, mimicking from Ethiopian materials. The cotton and leather employees, like the one she founded- development models from Asia, such as South is sourced locally, while the rubber soles are SoleRebels, the first ever global footwear com- Korea or China. made from recycled tires. Plus, the shoes and the pany to come out of a developing country. “You For Bethlehem, it is not only about moving company name resonates with Ethiopia’s rich don’t build your economy based on aid, you from aid to trade, it is about building a savvy history. Having never been formally colonised, want to build your economy based on the way business and manufacturing a product that res- Ethiopian rebels famously fought off Italian SoleRebels built its business, so that it’s sustain- onates with customers from France to Taiwan, occupiers in 1941, inspiring a pride and spirit of able,” Bethlehem told AFP. not because its made in Ethiopia, but because it independence Bethlehem sought to invoke with Eye Boutique opens SoleRebels highlights how burgeoning enter- is a good shoe. “People see them and say ‘wow, her company. prises can transform economies across Africa. By cool shoes!’ without necessarily knowing they “We’re free, that’s why we call ourselves at The Avenues SoleRebels,” she said, sitting next to a display of colourful, rubber-soled shoes modelled after KUWAIT: Following in the success of its loca- opera recitals in casual shoes, as much as shoes worn by Ethiopia’s rebels. Her business tions at 360 Mall and Dubai Mall, Eye one does not jog in high heels, for example. ethos is one that succeeds where charitable Boutique invited the media and press repre- Eye Boutique takes traditional eyewear retailers elsewhere do not. Tugging on philan- sentatives in Kuwait for the opening of its services a step further; its team ensures that thropic heart strings, Western companies often third store located in The Avenues III. This lat- every pair of glasses matches perfectly with brandish products manufactured cheaply in Asia est addition to the Eye Boutique network your complexion, the shape of your face, in order to help Africa, something the socially- features collections of some of the world’s your lifestyle and the occasion where it will conscious founder of SoleRebels adamantly finest eyewear brands, catering to a variety be used. It is imperative for Eye Boutique that opposes. of lifestyles in both medical frames and sun- every patron finds that perfect piece of eye- She said too many companies “come up with glasses. wear, every time. ever more outrageous claims of how they are Eye Boutique’s vision and philosophy has The team is also constantly exploring the saving Africa or helping Africa as a marketing always been focused on the delivery of global marketplaces in glasses, always tactic to sell product,” adding that “most of it is extraordinary service, bolstered with an expanding Eye Boutique’s diverse collection pure ‘BS’.” “We strongly believe that people have exceptional collection of world-class eye- of eyewear pieces. Coupled with exceptional to get a certain salary, so we don’t want to pro- wear pieces. A team that is not only techni- services, Eye Boutique provides the perfect duce our products with cheap labour,” she cally proficient, but also well versed in fash- opportunity for those seeking truly sophisti- added. ion, style and the demands of modern life, cated and perfectly matched glasses. Eye The first certified fair trade shoe company in complete the uniqueness of the Eye Boutique extends an open invitation for all the world, SoleRebels proudly pays their Boutique experience. to visit its new showroom located in The employees five times the minimum wage in a Choosing eyewear that compliments your Avenues - Phase III, next to the entrance of country where average per capita income is less appearance is becoming increasingly impor- the Gold Market; and enjoy a cup of espresso than $1 per day, according to the World Bank. tant, and Eye Boutique provides the perfect as you experience a uniquely sophisticated The secret to her success lies in large part in her platform for discovering what works best, service first hand, and as you discover the perseverance. She faced many financial and regardless of occasion. One does not attend new you. administrative challenges early on but refused ADDIS ABABA: SoleRebels CEO Bethlehem Tilahun is pictured at her flagship store. —AFP to give up. Bethlehem also stands out in a country where shifting away from a reliance on exporting raw are made in Ethiopia. To me, that is critical,” she business is dominated by men. She built her Al-Tijari announces materials to the production of premium prod- said. She is intent on marketing her product in company up from scratch with an initial invest- ucts such as shoes, Africa can ease its dependen- exactly the same way as longer-established ment of $5,000. Today, she is aiming to build the winners of Najma draw cy on aid and slowly move toward industrialised Western-based companies market theirs. company’s net worth to $250 million by 2020. growth. Founded in 2004, SoleRebels now “We are not saying... ‘we’re poor, we’re in Having received accolades internationally, KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held 100,000 each on different occasions: The employs around 150 Ethiopians producing Africa, we’re doing this to help the poor’. We including from Forbes and the World Economic the Al-Najma Account Daily Draw yester- National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha and shoes with hand-spun Ethiopian cotton, rubber have a brand, and we strongly believe in what Forum, Bethlehem admits she is sometimes sur- day. The draw was held under the supervi- on June 19 which is the date of the bank’s and leather for export in over 65 stores around we’re doing,” she said, lighting up at she gazes at prised at how successful her business is, but hav- sion of the Ministry of Commerce & establishment. the world. She believes creating jobs, supporting the racks of shoes in her wood-lined store. ing gained momentum in recent years, she is set Industry represented by Abdulaziz With a minimum balance of KD 500, local industries and transforming Africa’s image on expanding her global empire now. “I am Ashkanani. The winners of the Najma customers will be eligible for the daily abroad will have lasting impact on economies Trade, not aid dreaming about it all the time,” she said. Daily Draw who get KD 7,000 are: Yousif draw provided that the money is in the across the continent in ways that traditional aid Born in a poor neighbourhood in Ethiopia’s SoleRebels will open over 50 stand-alone retail Saleh Abdullah Al-Eidan, Farah Majed account one week prior to the daily draw cannot. capital, Bethlehem said she was inspired at a shops abroad over the next three years, adding Ashour Othmany, Adel Esam Abdulghani or two months prior to the mega draw. In “That is sustainable, and that’s the only way young age to go against the grain, especially to the 11 already in Taiwan, Singapore, Austria, Abdulaal, Shaver Gasper Pinto and Ahmed addition, for each KD 25 a customer can of getting out of poverty,” she said, sitting in her after seeing how little impact traditional aid had Japan, Spain and Ethiopia. Her dream is to see Mohammad Abdulhakeem Abdultawab. get one chance for winning instead of KD flagship store in downtown Addis Ababa. With a in her community and her country. “To follow Ethiopia’s economy transformed by supporting The Commercial Bank of Kuwait 50. Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this growth rate of 7.2 percent, according to the everybody’s pattern is not something that I more businesses like her own. “Imagine we have announces the biggest daily draw in opportunity to congratulate all lucky win- World Bank, Ethiopia is one of the fastest grow- wanted to do from the beginning,” she said with hundreds or thousands of SoleRebels...,” she said, Kuwait with the launch of the new Najma ners and also extends appreciation to the ing economies in the world. But, paradoxically, it a characteristic zeal in her eyes. “If I am doing the with a sly smile. —AFP account. Customers of the bank can now Ministry of Commerce and Industry for enjoy a KD 7,000 daily prize which is the their effective supervision of the draws highest in the country and another 4 which were conducted in an orderly and Angola’s skewed mega prizes during the year worth KD organized manner. lending said to Burgan Bank announces stifle economy Yawmi account winners LUANDA: There is no shortage of cash or credit in Angola-Africa’s second oil producer-but the struggle KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced the also required to deposit KD 100 or equiva- small businesses face to get loans is stimying efforts names of the five lucky winners of its lent only to enter the daily draw, and the to diversify the economy. According to the central Yawmi account draw, each taking home a coupon value to enter the draw stands at bank there was more than $22 billion in credit issued prize of KD 5,000. The lucky winners for the KD 10. The newly designed Yawmi account in Angola last year, around a fifth of total economic daily draws took home a cash-prize of KD has been launched to provide a highly output. A fledgling banking sector, prodded by the 5,000 each, and they are: Hashem Sayed innovative offering along with a higher fre- government to make loans available for businesses Mohd Shareef Zareee, Emad Abdulrazzaq quency and incentive of winning for every- not related to the energy sector, is starting to take Ahmad Alfahad, Zeba Naweed Naweed one. Today, the Yawmi account is a well flight. The volume of credit grew by 25 percent in the Abdulghani, Mohamad Zaitoun, and Elias understood product, where its popularity year to June 2012 alone. With the economy growing Nicola Al-Hani. can be seen from the number of increasing at 10 percent the services, construction and mining With its new and enhanced features, the account holders. Burgan Bank encourages sectors have been major beneficiaries, according to a Yawmi Account has become more conven- everyone to open a Yawmi account and/or recent report by consultancy firm Deloitte. ient, easier, and faster for customers to increase their deposit to maximize their But all is not going to plan. “Officially the amount of benefit from. Now, customers will be eligi- chances to becoming a daily winner. The credit has increased,” said Justino Pinto de Andrade, an ble to enter the draw after 48 hours only more customers deposit, the higher the economics professor at the Angolan Catholic from opening the account. Customers are chances they receive of winning the draw. University and an opposition member. “But just talk to business owners, they will tell you about the difficul- ties they face in funding projects.” Efforts to kick-start sectors like agriculture that have remained dormant since Angola’s 27-years of on-off civil war that ended in 2002 have faltered. Forty-eight-year-old Chimbili Henriques, a member of the agriculture cooperative Africole based in the southern province of Huambo benefited from a previous round of lending. Honda power products “We received a credit line from the government, which allowed us to borrow from a local bank for nine celebrates 60 years months and then pay back for the following nine months,” said Henriques. “But it was stopped in 2006 and since then things have been very hard.” “We tried KUWAIT: Alghanim Motors, one of Alghanim stroke G-Series range of mini power product to negotiate credit leveraged on the cooperative’s Industries group of companies, is now the engines in 1977, with the GX OHV series fol- funds and our own assets, but the banks refused, say- sole distributor for Honda power products in lowing in 1983. This pedigree continued into ing we did not have sufficient collateral or discourag- Kuwait. Alghanim Industries has an 80+ year the nineties, as it does today, with the ing us with overly bureaucratic procedures.” heritage of serving the Kuwaiti consumer world’s first electronically-controlled general Henriques’s story is not unique according to many and is renowned for the quality of their cus- purpose engine, in 1995, and the world’s observers. “The issue of credit continues to be the tomer service. In 2013, Honda Power first 360 degree multi-directional 4-stroke Achilles heel of our economy,” said Jose Severino, Products celebrates its 60th year of business engine, in 1997. FRESNO: Emilio Sandoval, president of Helados La Tapatia, stands near one president of the Industrial Association of Angola. around the world, based on the original spirit True to its long history of working of the ice cream and fruit bar company’s trucks in front of their downtown Whatever the industry, providing collateral remains of the founder of Honda Motor, Soichiro towards a low-carbon society, the last Fresno production facility. —MCT difficult in an economy where most of the population Honda, to utilise technology to help people decade has seen Honda make huge strides enjoy happier and easier lives. in developing products for energy conserva- makes a living in the informal sector. Ice cream company gets a Over this time, worldwide cumulative tion and creation. In 2003, its fiftieth year, The majority of Angolans live on less than $2 a day production of Honda Power Products has the company launched its first compact and only 20 percent have a bank account, according exceeded 100 million units, delivering useful household cogeneration unit, which com- to a study by the African Development Bank. sweet taste of expansion innovation to help millions of people across bined a gas engine with Honda’s inverter Unsubsidised interest rates can run at 18 percent the world at home and work. Honda Power generation technology to more efficiently according to the latest World Bank figures, making FRESNO: Emilio Sandoval moved to Fresno in The new plant will be almost twice the size of Products was founded in 1953 with the power homes. September 2012 saw the good collateral a sine qua non for banks. 1986 to work at his uncle’s ice cream factory. It the current operation and could double his work release of the ‘H type’ general purpose beginning of the next chapter in Honda’s “The banks’ demands — high monthly payments didn’t take long for the deliveryman to realize the force. The $3 million plant could be under con- engine, designed to reduce manual labour domestic cogeneration units, with the and repayment in a short time are impossible to meet company’s growth potential. “I started doing struction by June, following city approvals, he for farmers. Since then Honda has utilised launch of a new MCHP (Micro Combined for most people,” lamented Emilio Manuel, a 42-year- some projection analysis and research of this said. A fleet of 13 trucks ships about 1 million its core technology, the engine, to gradually Heat & Power) system, the ECOWILL PLUS, old Luandan who tried in vain to get a loan for an Mexican ice cream product,” he said. “That’s when bars per month to retailers in the central San expand its line-up which now includes powered by natural gas or LPG. apartment. Banks also complain that a lack of training I decided to purchase the company from my Joaquin Valley, but the company also supplies tillers, generators, outboard engines, water 2012 saw the pan-European launch of has resulted in low quality loan applications. uncle.” the all-natural dessert to outlets in the San pumps, lawnmowers, snow throwers and Honda’s first commercial domestic robotic “Since the launch of (the government-backed loan Today, Sandoval is president of Helados La Francisco Bay area, Nebraska, Nevada and most recently solutions for energy creation product, following some 30 years of devel- guarantee programme) Angola Investe, we received Tapatia, which makes and sells 24 types of ice Arizona. Sandoval estimates his company has and conservation. opment of ASIMO and its predecessors. sixty proposals and we approved eight projects,” said cream fruit bars from a cramped 8,800-square- about 5 percent of the market in the other states. As the world’s largest engine manufac- Honda Miimo is an autonomous lawnmower Emidio Pinheiro, chairman of BFA, the country’s sec- foot manufacturing plant in downtown Fresno. The bars are sold in packages of 24 or as sin- turer, Honda has always been at the fore- which needs zero human interaction whilst ond largest private bank. But the government is con- Business has been, well, fruitful. Sandoval was gles. They can be found in coolers and ice boxes in front of engine development and innova- working to give customers a beautiful lawn fident progress will be made, despite the setbacks. one of only three employees - all relatives - in FoodsCo and other stores, including those cater- tion. Most notably it has for decades pio- for every day of the mowing season. In the “We are far from an ideal situation, but we have made 1986. Within 10 years, it had a work force of 15. ing to Hispanic customers. Helados La Tapatia is neered the use of four-stroke engines in next few decades, Honda’s Power Products great progress in recent years,” said Jacinto Today, it has 55 workers - and Sandoval plans to one of a handful of ice cream manufacturers in the power product markets heavily dominated will continue the long tradition dating back Domingos Ferreira of the Ministry of Public open a new manufacturing plant on 4.1 acres he vicinity. Others include La Reina de Michoacan, by two-stroke machines. Some way ahead of to its founder of useful innovation which Administration. —AFP bought at Roeding Business Park in southwest which also uses fruit in its product, and Braun’s its time, the company introduced the four- helps people get things done. Fresno. California Style Gourmet Ice Cream. —MCT MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 BUSINESS

KUWAIT: AR Albisher and Z Alkazemi Co officials are pictured during the launch. —Photos by Joseph Shagra Mercedes-Benz E-Class makes debut in Kuwait

KUWAIT: AR Albisher and Z Alkazemi Co - the exclu- of the E-Class more comprehensively than ever line from the rear door through to the tail light. with Distronic Plus has resulted in a new dimen- sive distributor for Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait before, to make the latest technical advances Visually this benefits the vehicle in terms of length. It sion of motoring at Mercedes-Benz: comfort and launched the revamped E-Class at the Shuwaikh available in practice at an early stage. This is why underscores the side trim, which has been shifted safety are merged into one. Mercedes-Benz refers showroom. With new, efficient engines, new assis- it even makes advance use of developments from downwards. Overall the E-Class looks more elongat- to this as “intelligent drive”. In the E-Class a whole tance systems and a new design idiom, Mercedes- the future S-Class. In addition, the new E-Class offers ed and elegant, yet at the same time both dynamic host of new or optimised systems from the future Benz has comprehensively modernised the E-Class a considerably sharpened design with a cultivated, and composed. S-Class celebrate their world premiere, making to extend its leading position in the luxury segment elegantly sporty look, as well as significantly motoring more comfortable and safer. even further. enhanced comfort, high-quality appointments, effi- Broad, distinctive rear end Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Co ciency and driving pleasure. As a result, the E-Class is At the rear, the lights and bumper have been The basis for all this is formed by General Manager, Michael Ruehle, officially debuted continuing to consolidate its leading position in the revised. The new horizontally structured LED tail new, state-of-the-art sensors and the new E-Class and presented the latest innova- luxury class. lights with new two-tone look emphasise the width appropriate algorithms. Mercedes-Benz has tions and specifications that postion it as the best E- and feature a characteristic night design. made a major step forward with the introduction Class ever. No less than eleven new or optimised Design: Two new front-end of the Stereo Multi-Purpose Camera. Just like the assistance systems were unveiled, which combine a designs to choose from High-grade interior Mono Multi-Purpose Camera fitted previously, it host of comfort and safety features, all of which The E-Class features a new front-end design as The interior of the E-Class has also been visible is positioned behind the windscreen in the vicini- Mercedes-Benz refers to as ‘intelligent drive.’ well as new proportions through intelligent reworked and harmonised with the expressive exte- ty of the rear-view mirror. However, this camera “As with every new generation of this quintessen- changes. When it came to the modifications, the rior. High-quality materials and refined, subdivided features two “eyes” set at an angle of 45 degrees tial Merceds-Benz, the new E-Class brings a breath of designers followed the new Mercedes design idiom areas with precise joints and sharp curves under- and with an overall range of 500 metres that pro- fresh air to the luxury class with innovations in the and reinterpreted the classical design values of the score the high-quality overall impression of the gen- duce a three-dimensional view of the area up to areas of safety, design and efficiency. The E-Class is brand using the existing basis. The result is a superi- erous interior. A new feature is the two-part trim around 50 metres in front of the vehicle. In this the segment leader. The German luxury executive or and refined, sporty appearance. which stretches across the entire dashboard. It can way, the stereo camera provides data for process- vehicle achieved over 15,000 sales across the region The front has been completely revised with new be selected in a wood or aluminium look, irrespec- ing by various systems. Intelligent algorithms in 2012 - that’s a 19% increase from the previous headlamps, which comprise all functional elements tive of the equipment line. Also new is the design of perform an evaluation of this three-dimensional year alone. We are expecting the new E-Class to with a single headlamp lens. Flowing light elements the air vents as well as an analogue clock between visual information in order to detect and carry impress our customers even more and can confi- within the headlamps help to ensure that the “four- the two central air vents. The harmonious interior is out a classification, both spatially and in terms of dently say that we expect even greater demand for eyed” look which is typical of the E-Class has been characterised by the redesigned centre console their movement, of vehicles that are driving the new model,” said Ruehle. graphically retained. In terms of light and sight the E- without selector lever, as well as a new multifunction ahead, oncoming or crossing, as well as pedestri- The new E-Class includes systems which for the Class sets a measuring bar: The dipped beam as well steering wheel with direct select lever and shift pad- ans and a variety of traffic signs within a large first time can help to prevent accidents with crossing as the day-time headlamps are fitted with partial LED dles in conjunction with automatic transmission. field of vision. vehicles or pedestrians, active Lane Keeping Assist lights as standard, while full LED headlamps are avail- At the same time, along with the Stereo Multi- which can help to prevent accidents with oncoming able for the first time in this class as an option. Limitless individual appointments Purpose Camera, Mercedes-Benz is also introduc- traffic, or anti-glare continuous high-beam head- The bonnet and front bumper have also been As ever, there are attractive design packages ing enhanced versions of the multistage radar lamps. As such, Mercedes-Benz is underscoring its completely redesigned too. With its flowing lines, to visually enhance both the interior and exteri- sensor system.As standard, both the Saloon and leading position as a safety pioneer. The new E-Class the bonnet follows the new design idiom in a or. In addition to the basic appointments, there is Estate models are fitted with collision prevention makes a significant step forward when it comes to smooth, very straightforward manner. The bumper, also a choice of Elegance and Avantgarde equip- assist, a radar-based collision warning system efficiency and ecology too. This comes courtesy of which boasts a new shape and is free of all light ment lines - with the latter highlighting the with adaptive brake assist systems. It helps to new, powerful BlueDIRECT four-cylinder petrol functions, has a modern appearance and, along with sporty character of the Saloon models in particu- significantly reduce the risk of a rear-end colli- engines featuring sophisticated direct injection the wing design of its spoiler lip, discreetly under- lar. Furthermore, the new E-Class offers a variety sion. Also forming part of the standard equip- technology. This powerful development boost is scores the sporty credentials of the E-Class. of individualisation options, currently unique in ment is attention assist, which is now able to reflected to exciting effect in the design of the E- this class. warn of inattentiveness and drowsiness across a Class. With its new design the E-Class encapsulates Dynamic, elegant proportions wider speed range, and also inform the driver efficiency, intelligence and emotional appeal in a A new feature line and a repositioned three- “Intelligent drive” with new about his level of fatigue and the amount of driv- visually superior manner. dimensional trim strip deliver visually exciting pro- assistance systems ing time which has elapsed since the last break. Mercedes-Benz has revised all of the model series portions. The feature line runs below the structure What started with PRE-SAFE and continued It also offers an adjustable sensitivity level.

VIVA opens Qatar Airways has codeshare 15th branch flights with Bangkok Airways in Mahboula BANGKOK: Qatar Airways today announced a new in countries where the airline already has an estab- codeshare agreement with Bangkok Airways to desti- lished presence - in Thailand, Cambodia and KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- nations across Thailand and the capital cities of Myanmar. neighbouring Cambodia and Myanmar. The agree- “This new codeshare with Bangkok Airways gives ing telecom operator, announced ment sees Qatar Airways’ QR flight code on services our passengers greater and easier access to more that it has opened its 15th branch beyond the Thai capital wiith Bangkok Airways to a points across Thailand which is one of our most pop- located in Mahboula district. The new raft of destinations giving passengers more conven- ular destinations in Asia.” Qatar Airways currently branch located in Marina Towers ient and greater access to markets. operates non-stop flights between Doha and began operations as of May 14, 2013, The domestic Thai codeshare destinations to and Bangkok four-times-daily and also serves Phuket in and provides a full range of VIVA serv- from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport Thailand daily from the Qatari capital. In addition, are Samui, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Trat, Sukhothai, Qatar Airways serves both Phnom Penh and Yangon Osama Al-Ghoussein Masaud Hayat ices including bill payments, and cre- Lampang, Krabi. In addition, Qatar Airways will also daily from Doha. ating new customer contracts. codeshare with Bangkok Airways on flights from Bangkok Airways Senior Vice President Network KIPCO announces Commenting at the opening on Bangkok to Phnom Penh and Yangon, the capital Management Peter Wiesner added: “This new part- VIVA’s latest branch, VIVA CEO cities of Cambodia and Myanmar respectively. nership will offer better flight connectivity for pas- Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Badran sengers travelling on long-haul routes with Qatar senior appointment said: “We are very proud to have Airways to Bangkok for their onward journey within opened our 15th branch in Kuwait, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. “Moreover, Thailand’s key destinations, namely KUWAIT: KIPCO - the Kuwait Projects Company - banking team. There is large untapped as this is part of our expansion strat- has announced the appointment of Osama Al- potential in the regional financial services Samui, Phuket and Chiang Mai always have great Ghoussein as Senior Vice President, Banking. Al- marketand the companies within the KIPCO egy to ensure that all our customers potential which attract a large number of tourists. Ghoussein has over 30 years of global and regional Group are ideally placed to increase their get the best service available, and Therefore, we believe this partnership will offer a banking experience. Before joining KIPCO, he was market share through a combination of are served swiftly, efficiently and unique service for Qatar Airways’ passengers and will Senior Vice President in the Dubai office of the innovative products and excellent customer courteously. By opening this latest strengthen Bangkok Airways’ extensive network as Swiss-based private bank, Pictet & Cie. Previous to service. I look forward to working with my branch in Mahboula, we are seeking well as boosting tourism in Thailand and Asia.” Qatar Airways is one of the world’s fastest grow- this, Al-Ghoussein was Managing Director and team members and helping operating com- to satisfy a constantly growing Chief Executive Officer of the Dubai office of pany management achieve their objectives.” ing airlines currently operating a modern fleet of 124 Standard Chartered Private Bank. For 12 years, he demand for VIVA’s products and Customers can now make bookings through their aircraft to 126 destinations across Europe, Middle was the Regional Manager Middle East for Commenting on the services. Each and every customer is local travel agent, any Qatar Airways office or East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South Citigroup Global Markets. Al-Ghoussein has also appointment, Hayat said: important to us and VIVA will con- through the airline’s website. Passengers travelling America from its strategically located hub in Doha, held senior positions in Qatar, Bahrain, New York “We are delighted that Osama has tinue to take steps to provide cus- from many of Qatar Airways’ key markets in Europe, capital of the State of Qatar. The airline has an aggres- and London. joinedthe company. His appointment will tomers with the best telecommuni- North America, South America, Africa and the Middle sive growth strategy, with four new routes already Al-Ghoussein will join KIPCO’s banking team strengthen our team and help us achieve our East to and from southeast Asia can take advantage launched this year - Gassim (Saudi Arabia), Najaf cations experience in Kuwait.” VIVA’s of the new codeshare agreement with Bangkok (Iraq), Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Chicago (USA). headed by Masaud Hayat, KIPCO’s Chief Executive objective of developing KIPCO’s presence in latest branch in Marina Towers Officer, Banking. The team oversees the company’s the region’sbanking sector. In particular, his Airways for greater access to more markets. Over the next few weeks and months, the net- holdings in the commercial and investment bank- broad international and regional experience (Mahboula, Block 4 - Coastal Road) Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al work will grow further with Salalah (Oman on May ing sectors currently in eight countries across the in both commercial and investment banking will be open throughout the week Baker said: “Qatar Airways’ hub in Doha is strategical- 22); Basra (Iraq on June 3); Sulaymaniyah (Iraq on MENA region. will be a great benefit to KIPCO Group finan- from 10 am until 10 pm, and on ly well placed to connect East and West, and August 20); Chengdu (China on September 3); Addis cial services companies. We expect him to Friday it will be open from 4 pm through this new partnership with Bangkok Airways Ababa (Ethiopia on September 18); Clark we are able to cater to passengers who wish to International Airport (Philippines on October 28); and Al-Ghoussein said: play a major role in our expansion and devel- until 10 pm. “I am very pleased to be joining KIPCO’s opment within the regional banking sector.” seamlessly connect onwards to further destinations Philadelphia (USA on April 2, 2014). MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 technology Internet in ‘coma’ as Iran election looms Authorities refuse to confirm new restraints

TEHRAN: Iran is tightening control of the parliamentary communications committee, said secure and clean of “inappropriate” content, Internet ahead of next month’s presidential elec- VPN was blocked in early March, which has con- observers say. tion, mindful of violent street protests that social tributed to slowing the Internet, media reported. Critics say the unfinished “National networkers inspired last time around over claims He did not elaborate. Information Network” could expose Iranians to of fraud, users and experts say. The authorities Authorities refuse to officially confirm the state monitoring once operational. They argue deny such claims, but have not explained exactly new restraints, but former officials and media that a “National VPN” service launched in March why service has become slower. Businesses, reports have accused the Supreme Council of could be a test run. Users of the state-approved banks and even state organisations are not Cyberspace of ordering them. The council, set up VPN service, available to select businesses spared by the widespread disruption in the in March 2012, is tasked with guarding Iranians reportedly at a monthly rate of 4,000,000 rials Internet, local media say. from “dangers” on the Internet while enabling “a ($115, 88 euros), say it provides a relatively fast “The Internet is in a coma,” said the Ghanoon maximum utilisation of its opportunities.” The connection to select global websites. daily in a report in early this month. “It only hap- pens in Iran: the election comes, the Internet goes,” it said, quoting a tweet in Farsi. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and numerous other sites, including thousands of Western ones, have been censored in Iran since massive street demonstra- tions that followed the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Those protests- Messages sent with mobile apps such as WhatsApp are not limited to 160 stifled by a heavy-handed crackdown that led to characters the way traditional text messages are, and they can include scrib- numerous arrests and even deaths-were instigat- bled notes, doodles and emoji pictograms. —MCT ed online and observers say the authorities are choking the Internet to prevent a recurrence. One DVD vendor, who sells illegal copies of The war for mobile Western movies downloaded online, said “you can forget about downloading stuff; the band- width drops every other minute.” A network messaging is on supervisor at a major Internet service provider in Tehran said his company had been unable to SAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp is one of WhatsApp, Kik and MessageMe. Kakao Inc’s address complaints about slower speeds, partic- ularly accessing pages using the HTTPS secure Silicon Valley’s most buzzed-about compa- KakaoTalk and Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s communications protocol. WeChat are hot in Asian markets. One pop- nies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, “Browsing (the net) is difficult due to the low operating out of a small office in Mountain ular Asian app is making aggressive moves speed. Even checking emails is a pain,” he said. View, Calif, with no sign on the building into the North American market. Line, an “Sometimes, loading a secure Google page takes entrance or on the office door. Unlike most app with which users can play games and a few long seconds,” he added. Like others inter- startups eager for media attention, send virtual “stickers,” reached 100 million viewed for this article, he did not want to be WhatsApp Inc. says it doesn’t want or need users in 19 months. Facebook took about identified for fear of retribution. The problem is it. Its popular mobile messaging application three times as long to reach that level. Both not limited to slower speeds, but also affects TEHRAN: A picture taken of the screen of a laptop shows a webpage that appears when has spread so quickly by word of mouth Facebook and Google reportedly what people can actually access in a country an Iranian user tries to visit websites which are blocked by the government. —AFP that in just four years it has amassed hun- approached WhatsApp about a possible whose rulers take great care in seeking to ensure dreds of millions of users who collectively buyout. WhatsApp declined to comment that people do not see or read things deemed to information and communication technology The illegal VPN was available for as little as send as many as 18 billion messages a day. on that but said it plans to remain inde- be inappropriate. (ICT) ministry did not respond to AFP requests $50. “You can actually get some work done with WhatsApp belongs to a new generation pendent. Earlier this month, an Iranian IT website for an interview on the issue. this VPN. But it is almost as if you are paying the of messaging services that are revolutioniz- Mobile messaging apps work like this: reported that the last remaining software that The complaints come as Iran prepares to government to spy on you,” said one business ing 20-year-old text messaging technology Users download the app to their smart- enables users to bypass filters imposed on net elect its new president on June 14, but the user wary that his privacy could be violated. The and escalating the mobile messaging wars. phone and set up a personal profile. They traffic “has become practically inaccessible.” authorities reject claims that there is any link intranet could theoretically enable the regime to “In many countries, consumers have decid- invite friends and family members to down- Among such software is the virtual private net- with that and the current problems. “Many shut down the Internet at sensitive times, or ed they prefer these mobile messaging load the app to their devices. Then they work (VPN), which lets people circumvent the fil- parameters are involved in the Internet’s speed, effectively slow down it to a point where it is apps,” said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst with send one another elaborate messages, tering of websites. VPN uses certain protocols to but the election drawing near is not one of unusable. mobile diagnostics firm Alekstra. which travel over Internet data networks, connect to servers outside Iran. In that way, the them,” a deputy ICT minister, Ali Hakim Javadi, But the authorities insist the network will co- computer appears to be based in another coun- said in early May. exist with the Internet. And a Tehran-based Now they are taking the US by storm. not over cellular networks the way standard try and bypasses the filters. His remarks have failed to allay concerns Western diplomat, speaking on condition of text messages do. Jan Koum, co-founder That’s particularly worrisome to wireless Blocking these protocols could theoretically among an officially estimated 34 million net anonymity, was also sceptical. “It is unlikely that carriers that have already lost billions in rev- and CEO of WhatsApp, says mobile messag- contribute to slower speeds. Use of VPN, or its users out of a population of 75 million. “Even if I Iran would implement more restrictions, as that enue from customers shifting from text to ing apps make communication richer by sale, is illegal in Iran on the official grounds that wanted to believe it, I cannot ignore the timing,” would render its Internet inoperable to its peo- so-called instant messages such as Apple making it more personal. it is insecure and allows access to material said Ali, a computer engineer. The disruptions are ple, businesses and even (governmental) organ- Inc.’s iMessage service, which each day “Fundamentally mobile messaging is deemed as depraved, criminal or politically also linked to Iran’s stated plan of rolling out a isations that heavily rely on it,” said the diplo- delivers 2 billion messages free of charge. personal and real time,” Koum said. And offensive. Ramezanali Sobhani-Fard, head of the national intranet that it says will be faster, more mat. —AFP But the growing popularity of these mobile more creative, said Jessica Jiang, 23, a Web apps is not good news for the Silicon Valley graphic designer from San Jose, Calif Jiang tech giants either. Analysts say people use uses Line for the virtual stickers and the apps to connect with their closest MessageMe to draw pictures or to doodle Patent filing friends and relatives, creating a new more on the pictures her friends send to her. intimate social network that could rival “I use these apps mainly for the conven- claims solar Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. for the atten- ience and efficiency - the way that you can tion of hundreds of millions of users and, stay in the same app while sending videos, ‘breakthrough’ eventually, advertising dollars. iTunes music and also photos. It also gives Messages sent using the mobile apps, us a personality and expression that you WASHINGTON: In a US patent application, a little-known which are offered by third-party developers can’t get with just plain text,” Jiang said. Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy break- and downloaded to smartphones, are not That’s a big driver behind the success of through that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fos- limited to 160 characters the way text mes- mobile messaging apps, said Dave Morin, sil fuels at a fraction of the current cost - a transformation sages are. They also enable users to be CEO and co-founder of mobile social net- that also could blunt global warming. Inventor Ronald more creative with scribbled notes, doodles working service Path. “People desire a more Ace said that his flat-panel “Solar Traps,” which can be and emoji pictograms that express expressive way to communicate with mounted on rooftops or used in electric power plants, will thoughts and emotions that the typed mobile phones than through basic text shatter decades-old scientific and technological barriers word sometimes cannot. Some apps are messaging,” Morin said. that have stymied efforts to make solar energy a cheap, adding games and other distractions to Mobile messaging began sweeping Asia clean and reliable alternative. “This is a fundamental scientific and environmental hold people’s attention even longer. and Europe as data networks became more discovery,” Ace said. “This invention can meet about 92 robust and the global economic crisis in Many of the apps are free or charge a percent of the world’s energy needs.” His claimed discov- small subscription fee - WhatsApp charges 2008 spurred interest in cheaper alterna- eries, which exist only on paper so far, would represent $1 a year. When Nick Meyer, a 22-year-old tives. Gradually in market after market, such a leap forward that they are sure to draw deep skep- graduate student at North Carolina State mobile messaging began to cannibalize ticism from solar energy experts. But a recently retired MOUNTAIN VIEW: Brooke Chaffin, Senior Vice President of the Women & standard texting, analysts say. Then it start- University, is on his iPhone 4, he’s mostly congressional energy adviser, who has reviewed the Family business at Disney Interactive, speaks during the MamaBear family using an app called Kik to chat with friends, ed to grab time and attention away from invention’s still-secret design, said it’s “a no brainer” that tech conference at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California —MCT he says. Each day he sends a few hundred popular messaging services from the device would vastly outperform all other known solar messages, yet never messages friends on Facebook, Google and Apple too. “The technology. Facebook unless he’s sitting at his comput- smartest, brainiest companies in the world Ace said he is arranging for a national energy laborato- er. were completely out to lunch,” Kuittinen ry to review his calculations and that his own crude proto- Mothers drive “Mobile is going to be the main form of said. “These tiny startup companies have types already have demonstrated that the basic physics communication. In some ways, it already is,” taken hold of the market.” Now, he said, for the invention work. If the trap even comes close to Meyer said. With the explosion in world- technology giants have made mobile mes- meeting his futuristic vision, its impact could be breath- family tech boom wide sales of smartphones, these apps are saging a top priority. taking: It could reorder the world’s energy landscape, end already the go-to messaging tool in Europe In 2011, Facebook bought group mes- the global economic drag of soaring energy costs, and At the place where motherhood meets entre- ed. We ended up staying in a lot,” said Barrett, and Asia, where they have taken a big bite saging app Beluga and tasked the founders eventually curb greenhouse gas emissions that are preneur and play dates collide with iPads, a 35. “Word-of-mouth is the way people want out of texting traffic and profits that text with building a stand-alone Messenger app blamed for climate change. new market for parent- and kid-friendly tech- to find a caregiver, but it’s very inefficient.” In messages generate for wireless carriers. for the iPhone and devices running That all might sound rather rosy, since the previously nology is exploding. Family tech - Web servic- 2011, Barrett launched UrbanSitter, an online Wireless carriers lost a total of $23 billion in Google’s Android software. In December, undisclosed invention has yet to be constructed and fully es and applications for parents and kids - is a service that connects parents with trusted tested. But John Darnell, a scientist and the former con- texting revenue as of the end of 2012, Facebook rolled out Poke, its own version of new market driven largely by mothers creat- baby sitters. No more Friday nights on the gressional aide who has monitored Ace’s dogged research research firm Ovum estimates. a popular messaging app called Snapchat, ing technology to solve problems that have couch. The service is in 14 cities and raised $6 for more than three years and has reviewed his complex plagued parents for decades, such as how to million in the fourth quarter last year, she Research firm Informa says people are which lets users send messages that vanish calculations, has no doubts. “Anybody who is skilled in the find a baby sitter, choose the right summer said. seconds later. Last month, the giant social now sending more messages over mobile art and understands what he’s proposing is going to have camp, and capture the memories of their But it’s not just women in this burgeoning apps such as WhatsApp than they are text network made its biggest move yet, this dumbfounding reaction: ‘Oh, well it’s obvious it’ll child’s first year. space. Men, too, have recognized the poten- messages - and the trend is accelerating. By launching Facebook Home. The software work,’ “ said Darnell, a biochemist with an extensive back- Family tech was the focus of a recent all- tial of the market, among them the three the end of this year, traffic from mobile takes over the user’s Android smartphone ground in thermodynamics. day event in Mountain View, Calif., the second founders of BabyJunk, an online marketplace messaging is expected to be more than and puts the social network ahead of “Ron has turned conventional wisdom about solar on conference of its kind backed by seed fund to buy and sell baby and maternity goods. double that of traditional SMS texts. CTIA, a almost anything else on the phone’s home its head,” he said. “He thinks outside the box.” and startup accelerator 500 Startups, which is After becoming a dad, co-founder Garth wireless communications industry group, screen, including mobile messaging apps. An independent inventor working from his home out- led by Silicon Valley celebrity investor Dave Humbert watched barely worn children’s recently found that Americans sent 2.2 tril- “Facebook ignored messaging for a long side the nation’s capital, Ace said that his filing culminated McClure. Several of the hundreds of entrepre- clothes and toys pile up in his garage. lion SMS text messages last year, down 5 time until the realization sank in that some years of research into ways to efficiently capture and store neurs gathered at the Microsoft Conference “It’s just something that we needed or percent from 2011. of the eyeballs are actually shifting from solar energy. Center said that the busy and buzzy could use,” Humbert said. Women say they The trillions of messages from around checking the News Feed to communica- In recent interviews and redacted excerpts from his MamaBear Family Tech Conference validates have taken the lead in family tech because the globe that run through WhatsApp tions, especially in the younger demo- patent application, he said that his invention can be used the rising strength of the family tech market. they know how to design products that alone each year already surpass the texting graphics,” Sharma said. Google is getting to retrofit conventional nuclear- or fossil fuel-fired power Like many entrepreneurs there, Brooke mothers, want - technology that is simple, volume of all top four US wireless carriers close to unsheathing its own weapon in the plants to produce electricity at about 2 cents per kilowatt- Chaffin, 42, left a tech job to pursue a project helps them juggle their many responsibilities combined, telecommunications consultant mobile messaging wars. It’s working on a hour. That alone would be a staggering advance, slashing inspired by her kids. She had accumulated and supports their priorities - namely, their Chetan Sharma said. MessageMe, a free messenger service dubbed Babel, which the average wholesale cost of power by two-thirds and thousands of photos of her 1-year-old twin families. Business leaders say they’ve barely app, launched in March. A week later it had would work on multiple smartphone and the cost of solar energy by up to ninefold _ estimates that boys, but never moved them off her camera touched the potential for family technology. 1 million users. Its most active users send tablet brands, so the conversation could Ace called conservative. and into new photo albums, which still lay Women are “the superusers of technology,” 30,000 messages a day, the San Francisco sync across a user’s devices. Anyone with a But that’s just the beginning. A separate rooftop ver- wrapped in plastic and collecting dust. Chaffin said. “Women are the early adopters. Wracked with guilt, and knowing she was not When you make something that’s a hit with company said. smartphone or tablet running Android or sion, which Ace believes ultimately will power most alone, she set out to create an app that would women, you have a breakthrough.” Mothers “I didn’t know that was physically possi- Apple’s iOS operating system would be able homes and businesses, would initially provide cheap heat- ing and hot water. Soon, he said, equipment for those help organize and share photos and videos. are more likely to have a smartphone than ble,” MessageMe co-founder Arjun Sethi to start a “hangout” to chat face to face, She pitched the idea to Disney Interactive, teenagers, and 93 percent of them don’t traps will be able to convert solar energy to electricity, air said. In mobile, messaging has emerged as reports say. Google declined to comment. where she now runs the women and family leave home without it, according to data from conditioning and, if enough panels are installed, to pro- the “killer” app, said Ted Livingston, chief MessageMe’s Sethi predicts that mobile division. Last week, her brainchild was the conference. About one-third of mothers duce excess energy to sell to utility companies. Consumers executive of Kik Interactive Inc., a Canadian messaging apps will eventually shove aside released as an app called Story. For Andrea own a tablet. Women are online an average of startup that last month announced it had other forms of electronic communication will be able to reap enough savings on their utility bills to Barrett, one unexpected struggle of mother- almost three hours a day, and when a woman raised an additional $19.5 million in fund- and that texting, like snail mail, will become recover their costs within two to four years, a performance hood was her son’s marathon sleeping habits, finds out she is pregnant, her Internet usage ing. Kik has 50 million users and adds more of a utility. “We want to be the that far surpasses photovoltaic solar panels that are gain- which often meant she often would be stuck skyrockets. More than 70 percent of mothers 200,000 users each day, Livingston said. replacement for everyday communication,” ing a market toehold worldwide, Ace said. —MCT at home for hours. have a Facebook page, and check it on aver- Popular apps in the US include Sethi said. —MCT “We didn’t have a baby sitter that we trust- age about five times a day. —MCT MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

PETRINJA: Ante Ivanda, a de-miner, searches for land mines in Petrinja, central Croatia. (Right) A scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines. —AP

ZAGREB: Mirjana Filipovic is still The professor at Zagreb University out- it can then search,” Kezic said. “You can took them to a river between Croatia most common explosive used in the haunted by the land mine blast that lined the idea for the experiment: Bees train a bee, but training their colony of and Bosnia. “As we were returning Balkan wars - wasn’t part of their killed her boyfriend and blew off her have a perfect sense of smell that can thousands becomes a problem.” hand-in-hand, my boyfriend stepped experiment because its smell evapo- left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a quickly detect the scent of the explo- Croatian officials estimate that since on a mine,” the 41-year-old Filipovic rates quickly, and only small traces decade ago. It happened in a field that sives. They are being trained to identify the beginning of the Balkan wars in said. “It was an awful, deafening explo- remain after time. Rats and dogs are was supposedly de-mined. their food with the scent of TNT. 1991, about 2,500 people have died sion ... thousands of shrapnel parts also used to detect explosives world- Now, unlikely heroes may be com- “Our basic conclusion is that the from land mine explosions. During the went flying, hundreds ending up in my wide, but unlike bees, they could set ing to the rescue to prevent similar bees can clearly detect this target, and four-year war, around 90,000 land body. He was found dead several off blasts on the minefields because of tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees. we are very satisfied,” said Kezic, who mines were placed across the entire meters away, while I remained in a their weight. Croatian researchers are training them leads a part of a larger multimillion- country, mostly at random and with- pool of blood sitting on the ground.” Even after the de-miners have done to find unexploded mines littering euro program, called “Tiramisu,” spon- out any plan or existing maps. Dijana She sued the Croatian government, their job in an area, some land mines their country and the rest of the sored by the EU to detect land mines Plestina, the head of the Croatian gov- saying the area wasn’t clearly marked are missed and remain in the soil, and Balkans. When Croatia joins the on the continent. Several feeding ernment’s de-mining bureau, said the as a former minefield. “At first I thought they are most often the cause of dead- European Union on July 1, in addition points were set up on the ground suspected devices represent a large I was asleep,” she recalled. “Then I ly explosions. Once the experiment to the beauty of its aquamarine around the tent, but only a few have obstacle for the country’s population heard the voice of my father. I opened with bees proves scientifically reliable, Adriatic sea, deep blue mountain lakes TNT particles in them. The method of and industry, including agriculture and my eyes, and saw nothing. I thought I the idea is to use them in the areas and lush green forests, it will also bring training the bees by authenticating tourism. In the nearly two decades lost my eyes.” The government admit- that have already been de-mined, numerous un-cleared minefields to the the scent of explosives with the food since the end of the war, land mines ted guilt in the case for failing to keep where their movement would be fol- bloc’s territory. About 750 square kilo- they eat appears to work: bees gather have taken the lives of 316 people, the minefield sign, but the court has lowed with heat-seeking cameras, meters (466 square miles) are still sus- mainly at the pots containing a sugar including 66 de-miners, she said. yet to determine financial compensa- Kezic said. pected to be filled with mines from the solution mixed with TNT, and not the “While this exists, we are living in a tion. “We are not saying that we will dis- Balkan wars in the 1990s. ones that have a different smell. kind of terror, at least for the people It may be a while before the honey- cover all the mines on a minefield, but Nikola Kezic, an expert on the Kezic said the feeding points con- who are living in areas suspected to bees hit real minefields, Kezic said. the fact is that it should be checked if a behavior of honeybees, sat quietly taining the TNT traces offer “a sugar have mines,” she said. “And of course, First, they will conduct controlled tests, minefield is really de-mined,” he said. together with a group of young solution as a reward, so they can find that is unacceptable. We will not be a with real mines but which are marked. “It has been scientifically proven that researchers on a recent day in a large the food in the middle.” country in peace until this problem is Kezic said American researchers there are never zero mines on a de- net tent filled with the buzzing insects “It is not a problem for a bee to solved.” In 2004, Filipovic and her have in the past experimented with mined field, and that’s where bees on a grass field lined with acacia trees. learn the smell of an explosive, which boyfriend were on a fishing trip that mine-searching bees, but TNT - the could come in.” — AP ‘Gap’ for HIV vaccine Alzheimer’s leaves bilingual efforts after setback victims stranded in Canada WASHINGTON: The hunt for an HIV vac- Columbia University, adding that Ad5 may cine has gobbled up $8 billion in the past now be considered too risky and other decade, and the failure of the most recent options are being investigated. Bilingualism can delay onset of dementia efficacy trial has delivered yet another set- “No one is going to want to a do a major back to 26 years of efforts. trial with this sort of vector in the future,” TORONTO: The devastating effect of Alzheimer’s for francophones in the Toronto region. “People With the next attempts expected to be he told AFP. The key puzzle in the vaccine disease on bilingual people has been thrown who lose the ability to speak English are unilin- years away, top researchers now say there search has been the nature of the human into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a gual francophones who have learned English lat- is a “void” or a “gap” in current clinical trial immunodeficiency virus itself, which has second language can leave sufferers feeling like er in life,” said Guy Proulx, a professor at York efforts to test whether a vaccine may be managed to fool modern medicine by strangers in their own country. Despite increas- University who specializes in the assessment and safe and effective in people. changing its genetic makeup so often that ing evidence that bilingualism can actually delay rehabilitation of cognitive disorders in people A kind of ongoing autopsy of the last a single weapon cannot silence it. “The the onset of dementia, those grappling with the suffering from strokes or dementia. four major bids to make an HIV vaccine has virus is a very elusive foe,” said Wayne Koff, ravages of the disease often find themselves iso- Proulx, a director of the foundation, cau- informed the field as to what does not chief scientific officer at the International lated by the lack of essential services in their lan- tioned that individuals who had been bilingual work, with the latest casualty being a trial AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). guage of choice. since childhood were less likely to lose the use of called HVTN 505 that was halted early “It is more variable than almost any oth- When Alzheimer’s strikes, an people’s ability their second language. “A bilingual from child- because it did not prevent HIV. “It leaves us er virus that a vaccine has been attempted to communicate in their second language often hood won’t lose it because it is automated, it is with a gap in several years before we have for. So if one wants to make antibodies erodes rapidly. Sylvie Lavoie told AFP she anchored in. When it is automated, it is more another HIV vaccine efficacy trial under against a virus that is variable, one has to noticed a steady deterioration in her mother’s resistant to diseases like Alzheimer’s,” he way, and that is unfortunate,” said James have a broadly reactive antibody,” he told ability to speak English fluently after she was explained. Proulx and the foundation are hoping Kublin, executive director of the HIV AFP. A small number of HIV-positive people diagnosed with the disease. to set up a dedicated francophone clinic in the Vaccine Trials Network. have been found to produce antibodies Her mother, Helene Tremblay-Lavoie, later Toronto region that will feature a research center Another concern for researchers is that that can neutralize a broad range of HIV took a test to measure her deterioration that in the field of cognitive health and therapy for two vaccine trials-HVTN 505 and a previous variants, but scientists have not yet figured provided conclusive evidence. diseases like Alzheimer’s. trial known as STEP that ended unsuccess- out how to make a vaccine from that infor- She scored nine marks out of 30 for a test in Nearly 90 percent of francophones in fully in 2007 — both revealed apparent mation. English contrasted with 19 out of 30 for the Toronto-some 125,000 people out of a popula- increases in the number of vaccinated “Lots of people are working on that very same test in French. “The result was a terrible tion of 600,000 across Ontario-are in relation- patients who got HIV. HVTN 505 showed 41 hard. I would have thought we would have shock, a huge surprise,” Lavoie told AFP. “Talking ships with non-francophones. The aim is to cases of HIV were acquired in the vaccine that immunogen to test in phase I trials by in French to my mother I had not noticed that ensure these people can stay together when the group, compared to 31 in the placebo now, but hopefully soon,” said Hammer, a she had lost her English. disease strikes. group. Among some 2,500 participants, the leading HIV researcher. About 34 million “I noticed that she was speaking less and less ing for her mother, Lavoie discovered nothing “Health care services in French are available difference was not statistically significant, people are infected with HIV worldwide, English to my husband, who is anglophone, but I was available for her mother in Toronto. in Toronto but they are scattered. They need to and so researchers found that no harm was and AIDS has killed 30 million people since attributed that to the illness and general fatigue.” She eventually found a spot in a French- be structured,” said Proulx. Jean Roy, who chairs caused by the trial. the epidemic began 30 years ago. The case garnered attention in Canada. speaking hospice in the town of Welland, near the foundation’s board, said it had the support “But the number is in the wrong direc- The vaccine field has fallen short of Tremblay-Lavoie was born in the French-speak- Niagara Falls. of the provincial and federal governments. “The tion,” said trial leader Scott Hammer, who expectations since 1984, when Margaret ing province of Quebec and lived in Toronto for In response to the shortfall of spaces, the project will cost Can$200,000 per year for three described the trial’s outcome as a “disap- Heckler, who was then US secretary of 30 years, becoming fully bilingual. However, Helene Tremblay-Lavoie Foundation was set up years and we already have the money. It is only pointment.” Researchers are still investigat- Health and Human Services, declared a when it came to finding a facility capable of car- last year with the goal of creating long-term care going to be a matter of months.” —AFP ing why this may have happened, but some vaccine would be ready for testing in about theorize the cold virus known as Ad5 that two years’ time. The first phase I trial of a served as a vector to deliver the vaccine vaccine began in 1987 at the National may have somehow caused more infec- Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, tions by making it easier for HIV to pene- and included 138 healthy volunteers. The Acne pill benefits outweigh trate the body. “You scratch your head,” said first large-scale trials did not begin until the Hammer, a professor of medicine at late 1990s. —AFP blood clot risk: EU agency

PARIS: Europe’s medicines watch- other hormonal contraceptives”- and more than 100 cases of blood aware of the risks, signs and symp- dog said the benefits of acne drug this would expose them to high clots in the past 25 years. In toms of blood clots. The PRAC’s rec- Diane-35, also widely used as a doses of the female hormone France, Diane-35 is authorized for ommendation will be considered contraceptive, outweigh the risk of oestrogen, which has been linked acne treatment — about 315,000 by the agency’s drug authorization developing blood clots in the veins- to thrombosis. women used it in 2012. coordination group, which will take when correctly prescribed. Diane-35 is authorized in over In some European countries it is a final position within weeks. The The clot risk was “low”, said a 100 countries and used by millions authorized for use as a dual acne EMA is also reviewing the clot risk European Medicines Agency (EMA) of women. According to the pack- treatment-contraception solution. posed by so-called third- and ruling on a French-initiated review age insert on Bayer’s website, The EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk fourth-generation birth-control of the drug’s safety. But it stressed Diane-35 is indicated for hormonal Assessment Committee (PRAC) pills, which do not include Diane- Diane-35 and its generics should be skin conditions, in cases that other made its ruling on Diane-35 in a sit- again at the request of France used only for acne treatment, as treatments had not worked. The ting this week. which announced last year these indicated by the pill’s German man- leaflet seeks to discourage the “Based on all available data, the drugs would no longer be reim- ufacturer, Bayer. drug’s use for birth control alone PRAC concluded that Diane-35 and bursed by the social security sys- It should only be prescribed — although Diane-35’s hormone its generics have a place as a treat- tem. France’s move was partly trig- when alternative acne treatments make-up means it acts as a contra- ment option for certain women suf- gered by the case of a 25-year-old had failed, and measures must be ceptive by blocking ovulation. fering from the above-mentioned woman left badly handicapped by taken to minimize the blood clot The insert does warn of a high- (skin) conditions,” said the state- a stroke that, in a lawsuit, she risk. “These medicines should be er risk of blood clots in the blood ment. But it “acknowledged that attributed to later generation birth used solely in the treatment of vessels, which can break off and there is a need to take further control pills. moderate to severe acne... in lodge in the lungs, obstructing measures to better address and A Danish study published in the women of reproductive age,” the blood flow to key organs and minimise the risks of thromboem- British Medical Journal (BMJ) in agency said in a statement. cause heart attacks or strokes, bolism associated with these medi- 2011 found women who took one PYONGYANG: Wearing gym-provided workout clothing, North Koreans rest near the “Since Diane-35 and its generics even death.In January, French cines.” of the newer types of the pill ran gym at the Haedanghwa Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea yesterday. The are hormonal contraceptives, health regulator ANSM suspended The committee recommended twice the risk of blood clots in the newly opened complex houses a cooking school, multiple banquet rooms, swim- women should not take these sales of the hormone tablet which that new warnings be developed, veins than those who used older- ming and wading pools, a billiards room and other recreational facilities. —AP medicines in combination with it linked to four thrombosis deaths and said patients must be made generation drugs. —AFP MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Russia retrieves mice, newts from space Scientists hope for a manned flight to Mars

MOSCOW: A Russian capsule filled with 45 that no other country has yet pulled off. the tests primarily focused on how micro- mice and 15 newts along with other small France’s Centre National d’Etudes gravity impacts the skeletal and nervous sys- Shrinks, critics face off animals returned from a month’s mission in Spatiales (CNES) space centre said 15 of the tems as well organisms’ muscles and hearts. orbit yesterday with data scientists hope will 45 mice came from a French research lab that The animals were stored inside five special pave the way for a manned flight to Mars. is cooperating with the study. CNES life sci- containers that automatically opened after over psychiatric manual Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M ence department head Guillemette reaching orbit and closed once it was time to CHICAGO: In the new psychiatric manual of duces the nearly 1,000-page revised version craft landed softly with the help of a special Gauquelin-Koch said the project took “a fur- return. Also on board were over two dozen mental disorders, grief soon after a loved this weekend in San Francisco. It’s the manu- parachute system in the Orenburg Region ther decisive step in human adaptation to measuring devices and other scientific one’s death can be considered major depres- al’s first major update in nearly 20 years, and a about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) southeast weightlessness.” Another flight with other objects, some of which were stationed out- sion. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get backlash has taken shape in recent weeks: animals would probably take place next year, side the capsule to measure radiation levels. of Moscow. a fancy name. And certain “senior moments” Two new books by mental health experts, The capsule was also carrying snails and she added. The capsule spun 575 kilometers (357 are called “mild neurocognitive disorder.” “Saving Normal” and “The Book of Woe,” say gerbils as well as some plants and microflora. “They might be microorganisms,” she said. miles) above Earth. Russia has long set its Those changes are just some of the rea- the world’s most widely used psychiatric Rossiya state television said not all the ani- A field research lab was deployed near to sights on Mars and is now targeting 2030 as sons prominent critics say the American guide has lost credibility. mals survived but provided no other details. where the capsule landed to quickly test the the year in which it could begin creating a Psychiatric Association is out of control, turn- A British psychologists’ group is criticizing “This is the first time that animals have been animals’ response to their journey and return base on the Moon for flights to the Red ing common human problems into mental ill- the DSM-5, calling for a “paradigm shift” away put in space on their own for so long,” said to Earth. Officials said the small menagerie Planet. But recent problems with its once- nesses in a trend they say will just make the from viewing mental problems as a disease. Vladimir Sychov of the Russian Academy of composed of dozens of individual cages vaunted space program-including the “pop-a-pill” culture worse. Says a former An organization of German therapists also Sciences’ institute of medical and biological would now be flown to Moscow for more embarrassing failure of a research satellite leader of the group: “Normal needs to be attacked the new guide. research. tests. that Moscow tried sending up to one of saved from powerful forces trying to convince Even the head of the US National Institute The TsSKB-Progress space research cen- Scientists said the animals were needed Mars’s moons last year-have threatened us that we are all sick.” of Mental Health complained that the book tre’s department head Valery Abrashkin said because they were subject to the kinds of Russia’s future exploration efforts. Russia’s tri- At issue is the fifth edition of the lacks scientific validity. This week, the NIMH on the day the mission took off in April that experiments that are impossible to conduct als and tribulations are watched closely by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental director, Dr Thomas Insel, tried to patch the study was aimed at determining how on the humans who are currently operating other space-faring nations because the Disorders, widely known as the DSM-5. The things up as he and the psychiatrists group bodies adapt to weightlessness “so that our the International Space Station (ISS). They Soyuz rocket on which the animals went up DSM has long been considered the authorita- issued a joint statement saying they have sim- organisms survive extended flights.” The added that the mice would have posed a represents the world’s only manned link to tive source for diagnosing mental problems. ilar goals for improving the diagnosis and space mission has been widely praised by health risk if simply placed on board the ISS the constantly-staffed International Space The psychiatric association formally intro- treatment of mental illness. —AP Russian state media as a unique experiment for a month. The experiment’s designers said Station. — AFP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

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Pierre Zayoun, General Manager of World Travel Awards hit the travel industry the hotel expressed his great pride on community. receiving the award. “All credit goes to the Zayoun also announced the opening of hard work and dedication of our hotel’s hotel’s fully renovated swimming pool team which continually exceeds the expec- located on the rooftop, along with the new tations of our guests, as evidenced by this services and facilities which will add more IMAX film program award. With thousands of votes cast by comfort and satisfaction to all hotel’s noteworthy industry professionals across guests and health club members. He also the globe, and the great support we always explained about the great offers the hotel Monday: receive from hotel’s owning company in designed for summer and Ramadan 2013. ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 8:30pm Tornado Alley 3D11:30am, 5:30pm, 7:30pm AUK students discover the wonders of Andalusia To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 9:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 6:30pm he Department of Arabic and Foreign Languages at AUK organized a trip to Spain to discover the wonders of Andalusia. Tuesday: T On the night of 28 March, 20 AUK students and faculty, along ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups with some family members, departed Kuwait heading to their first Tornado Alley 3D10:30am, 6:30pm, 8:30pm stop, Granada. “We found Granada in a festive spirit, as our arrival Flight of Butterflies 3D 11:30am, 9:30pm there coincided with Good Friday and the beginning of the Easter To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm weekend. Colorful processions filled the streets,” said Dr Raymond Farrin, Chair of the Department of Arabic and Foreign Languages at Born to be Wild 3D 5:30pm AUK and the trip chaperon. The highlight of the Granada stay was the visit to the Palace of Wednesday: Alhambra (Qasr Al-Hamra’). ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups A notable feature of Alhambra is plentiful water, such that its To The Arctic 3D 10:30am fountains are always supplied by means of aqueducts and pipes. According to Dr. Farrin, the day of the tour was rainy and the group Tornado Alley 3D11:30am, 6:30pm, 9:30pm was soaked. “But the rain did not dampen our spirits, and we for- Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm got it as we became increasingly amazed at the wonders of this Journey to Mecca 5:30pm monument built by the Arabs many centuries ago,” said Dr. Farrin. Born to be Wild 3D 8:30pm The group’s next stop was Cordoba, former capital of Al- Andalus, site of the Great Mosque (now converted into a cathe- Thursday: dral), and scene of the famous, high-drama love affair between ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Princess Wallada and the poet Ibn Zaydun. As the hotel was conve- Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm niently located right next to the Great Mosque, the group enjoyed numerous strolls in the old city. They also spent an afternoon visit- Born to be Wild 3D 11:30am ing the ruins of Madinat Al-Zahra’ and got invited for lunch by a Tornado Alley 3D12:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm Muslim family at their farm “that seemed more like a little paradise”. To The Arctic 3D 6:30pm An interesting discussion followed about the state of Muslims today in Christian Spain. “Memorable as well was a lively and color- Friday: ful Flamenco performance witnessed one night in Cordoba,” said Fires of Kuwait 2:30pm Dr. Farrin. Tornado Alley 3D3:30pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm From Cordoba, the group also took a day-trip to Seville, former To The Arctic 3D 4:30pm, 7:30pm home of the poet king Al-Mu’tamid ibn ‘Abbad, where they toured Flight of Butterflies 3D 6:30pm the palace and the large cathedral, and then took the opportunity Born to be Wild 3D 9:30pm to see more of the city by way of horse-drawn carriage. “Particularly beautiful was Seville’s park, which might remind one of an orange grove,” Said Dr. Farrin. On the last day in Spain, the group rode the bus north to Toledo, once a center for translation of Arabic books into Latin. Many of the group then chose to spend the afternoon and evening in Madrid. Write to us In that city, some of the group members visited the Santiago Bernabeu and even descended to the field where the Real Madrid players sit during matches. The tour ended at the press room and Send to What’s On led into the team’s store. There, and also in the fashionable shops of Madrid, and likewise elsewhere during the visit, shopping upcoming events, birthdays or opportunities were not missed by the group; “our suitcases came back fully packed,” said Dr. Farrin celebrations by email: On Friday morning, April 5, it was time to return to Kuwait. The [email protected] group left Madrid, excited and happy to be seeing family and Fax: 24835619 / 20 friends again but sad to be leaving Spain, and filled with memories of a unique educational experience. WHAT’S ON MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 TIES Centre events Embassy he TIES Center cordially invites laws in Islam aim to safeguard the Information you to the following events: community and exist when there is Sebamed on T potential harm to a second party. Join 1- Discussion regarding the issue Dr. Teresa Lesher on Tuesday, May 21 EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA of Islam and Progress: Islam came as a for a discussion of Islamic law (shari- Instagram The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not message of guidance from Allah ah) regarding the penalties for the have a visa or immigration department. (SWT) to all creation at a time when major crimes, including murder, All processing of visas and immigration ignorance and corruption were uni- manslaughter, armed aggression, matters in conducted by The Australian versal. It opened peoples’ minds and theft, rape, adultery, slander and Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: info.aus- souls to learning, development, intoxication, and how these rules pro- [email protected] (VFS) refinement and morality. The achieve- tect the citizens’ material, spiritual [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: ments of Islamic thought in the early and social development. Q&A follows +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa period were sufficient to bring ethics, a 20-minute presentation, which Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In guidance and knowledge to humani- begins at 7 pm at the TIES Center. Kuwait applications can be lodged at the ty. Despite these facts, many Muslims Dr. Teresa holds her PhD in Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, today are characterized by laziness, Information Science from the UK and Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem dishonesty and untrustworthiness. is now associate professor at the Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Join Hassan Bwambale today May 20 Kuwait College of Basic Education. Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: at 7 pm for a discussion of the rea- She held the position of General 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their sons for such weaknesses despite the Manager of the AWARE Center for website www.vfs-au-gcc-com for more informa- magnanimous teachings of Islam. three years. If you are interested in e are glad to inform you that we launched our site on instagram. tion. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas Place: The TIES Center. the topic, Ties Center is the best place Follow us on @sebamedkuwait and (hashtag)#sebamedkuwait and on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. 2- A diwaniya presentation enti- to visit on May 21, 2013 at 7:00pm. Wsend us your shots involving all family members and be the lucky n n n n n n n winner of a valuable prize from Sebamed products. tled, “Criminal laws in Islam.” Criminal EMBASSY OF CANADA The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration depart- ment. All processing of visa and immi- gration matters including enquiries is conduct- ed by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- [email protected]. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF CYPRUS In its capacity as EU Local Presidency in the State of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, on behalf of the Member States of the EU and associated States participating in the Schengen cooper- ation, would like to announce that as from 2nd October 2012 all Schengen States’ Consulates in Kuwait will use the Visa Information System (VIS). The VIS is a central database for the exchange of data on short- stay (up to three months) visas between Schengen States. The main objectives of the VIS are to facilitate visa application proce- dures and checks at external border as well as to enhance security. The VIS will contain all the Schengen visa applications lodged by an applicant over five years and the decisions taken by any Schengen State’s consulate. This will allow applicants to establish more easily the lawful use of previous visas and their bona fide status. For the purpose of the VIS, applicants will be required to provide their biometric data (fingerprints and digital pho- tos) when applying for a Schengen visa. It is a simple and discreet procedure that only takes a few minutes. Biometric data, along with the data provided in the Schengen visa applica- Ruby Tuesday hosts food tasting tion form, will be recorded in the VIS central database. Therefore, as from 2nd October 2012, first-time applicants will have to appear for the British Business Forum in person when lodging the application, in order to provide their fingerprints. For subse- quent applications within 5 years the finger- he Executive Team of National Arabic Company inception in 1972. Ruby Tuesday is defined by it fresh Tuesday last night. The committee was inspired by the prints can be copied from the previous appli- headed by Bill Robinson, Vice President held a handcrafted burgers, USDA Choice beef, premium cuts amazing ability of the staff to create such lovely meals cation file in the VIS. The Cypriot Presidency Tfood tasting event at Ruby Tuesday Sharq for the of meat, and the best choices in shareables and main with care and attention to detail and flavour. The event would like to assure the people of Kuwait and esteemed members of the British Business Forum. The courses. was signed off with serving of the Cheesecake dessert all its permanent citizens that the Member members were invited to a delectable three course The executive team headed by Adel Kayed, Director which many exclaimed as, ‘something to die for’. States and associated States participating in meal. of Operations, Essam El Sanea Senior General Manager, Paul McKay, Chairman of BBF said, “The story of the the Schengen cooperation, have taken all Bill Robinson related facts to the history of the ori- Sathyaseelan Senior General Manager, Reyana Mahesh ‘journey of taste’ stimulated not only our taste buds necessary technical measures to facilitate the gin of Ruby Tuesday and how the name came about. 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GUST hosts Springer author workshop n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA he A. M. Al-Refai Library along with The Embassy of the Republic of South Springer and Edanz hosted a scien- Africa will be closed on Tuesday, 28 May Ttific authors’ workshop on 2013, for an official event. The Embassy will Wednesday, May 15 in GUST auditorium. resume it’s normal working hours on Wednesday, The workshop was attended by VP for 29 May 2013, from Sunday to Thursday. Please Academic Affairs, Dean of the College of note that the Working hours will be from 8h00 to Arts and Sciences, Assistant Dean of the College of Business Administration, facul- 16h00 & the Consular Section operation hours will ty members, representatives from KISR, be from 8h30 to 12h30, for any emergencies and a few GUST staff members. The lec- please contact: 94924895. ture was presented by two speakers: Chris n n n n n n n Bendall and Warren Raye. Dr. Ali Ansari, Dean of the College of EMBASSY GREECE Arts and Sciences welcomed the speakers The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the and the attendees, and thanked them for pleasure to announce that visa applica- attending the workshop. He specifically tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa thanked Mrs. Shobhita Kohli, Library Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th Directorfor her exceptional workin floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- arranging events as such. Thelecture ses- Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For sions were split in three parts: a) Research information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to and Scientific Publishing b) How to Write 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: for and Get Published in Scientific Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- Journals and Publish Manuscripts c) tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications Author Services: Support When You please visit the following website Publish With Springer. The speakers cov- www.mfa.gr/kuwait. ered some important topics such as: how non-nativeEnglish authors could over- n n n n n n n come the language barrier, write a title EMBASSY OF SOUTH KOREA that would attract readers, develop cover The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in letter, how to handle peer review com- Kuwait will organize 2013 K-POP Contest on ments, etc. Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 6:00 pm. The aim The workshop was mainly designed for of the contest is to provide an opportunity to the authors to help them write quality manu- participants to showcase their exciting talents to the scripts that would be attractive to SCI audience. Everyone is encouraged to participate in indexed journals. The attendees found the the contest. Application forms can be downloaded lecture to be informative as it gave them a from the Embassy’s website: http://kwt.mofa.go.kr good insight to submitting research arti- (Select English from the menu at the top of the cles in quality journals. The session was page then Bilateral Relations) or visit the “Korean interactive and the attendees were seen Culture Diwaniya” Facebook Group. Interested appli- to be enthusiastically asking questions in cants must send their application forms to the end, which the speakers happily [email protected] by 24 May 2013. answered. MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 TV PROGRAMS

10:10 Krypto: The Super Dog 14:00 Vanished With Beth 18:25 Survivorman Kuruvita 10:35 Cartoonito Tales Holloway 19:20 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 14:30 Market Values 11:00 Jelly Jamm 15:00 The First 48 20:10 Alaska’s Great Race 15:25 Living With The Amish 11:25 Gerald McBoing Boing 16:00 The FBI Files 21:05 Timewatch 16:20 Into The Drink 11:50 Lazytown 17:00 Crime Stories 22:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 17:15 Lonely Planet: Roads Less 00:45 Squid Invasion 12:15 Baby Looney Tunes 18:00 Crime Stories 22:55 Zero Hour Travelled 01:35 Animal Cops Philadelphia 12:40 Jelly Jamm 19:00 Psychic Detectives 23:50 FBI Case Files 18:10 Travel Oz 02:25 Roaring With Pride 13:00 Tom & Jerry Kids 19:30 Curious & Unusual Deaths 18:35 Deadliest Journeys 03:15 Wildest Africa 13:25 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 20:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 19:05 A World Apart 04:05 Biggest And Baddest 13:50 Moomins 21:00 Psychic Detectives 20:00 Market Values 04:55 Animal Cops Philadelphia 14:20 Sylvester & Tweety 21:30 Crime Stories 21:00 Graham’s World 05:45 Wildest Islands Mysteries 22:30 Private Crimes 21:30 My Sri Lanka With Peter 06:35 Wildlife SOS 14:45 The Looney Tunes Show 23:00 Private Crimes 00:00 Chelsea Lately Kuruvita 07:00 The Really Wild Show 15:10 The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby- 00:30 Dirty Soap 22:00 Long Way Down 07:25 My Cat From Hell Doo 01:25 E! Investigates 22:55 Graham’s World 08:15 Dogs 101 15:35 Taz-Mania 02:20 20 Acts Of Love Gone 23:20 My Sri Lanka With Peter 09:10 Panda Adventures With 16:00 Tiny Toon Adventures Wrong Kuruvita Nigel Marven 16:25 Moomins 04:10 THS 23:50 Earth Tripping 10:05 Safari Vet School 16:50 Tom And Jerry Tales 05:05 Extreme Close-Up 10:30 Safari Vet School 00:40 You Have Been Warned 17:15 What’s New Scooby Doo 07:00 Mythbusters 05:30 Extreme Close-Up 11:00 Animal Cops Phoenix 17:40 The Looney Tunes Show 06:00 THS 11:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 07:50 Soul Food Family 18:05 The Garfield Show 08:45 Gold Rush 07:50 Style Star 12:20 Wildlife SOS 18:30 Sylvester & Tweety 08:20 E! 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MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (16/05/2013 TO 22/05/2013)

SHARQIA-1 PHANTOM (DIG) 10:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:45 AM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 AM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 2:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED AL-KOUT.3 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 5:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 1:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 8:15 PM MARINA-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 6:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 AM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 6:45 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:15 AM SHARQIA-2 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 9:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 12:15 AM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED BAIRAQ-1 IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 7:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 12:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM AVENUES-1 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 12:30 AM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 2:00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 4:15 PM SHARQIA-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 6:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 9:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:15 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 8:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 11:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 11:00 PM THE CALL (DIG) 5:45 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:15 AM BAIRAQ-2 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:30 PM THE CALL (DIG) 12:15 AM AVENUES-2 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 4:45 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 1:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 7:30 PM MUHALAB-1 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 4:00 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 1:45 PM THE CALL (DIG) 6:15 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 AM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:30 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 8:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 6:30 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 10:45 PM BAIRAQ-3 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:15 PM THE CALL (DIG) 1:00 AM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 4:15 PM MUHALAB-2 THE CALL (DIG) 6:30 PM FOR SALE MATRIMONIAL SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:00 PM AVENUES-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:45 PM Chevrolet Captiva (LT) SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:45 PM THE CALL (DIG) 1:00 AM I am an American Muslim PHANTOM (DIG) 7:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:00 PM Jeep, black color, model man looking for a Muslim SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:15 PM PLAZA 2008, very good condition, SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:30 PM woman from ages of 23 to STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 5:30 PM 135,000 km, price KD MUHALAB-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 11:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM 33. Please only Muslim IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:30 PM 2,600/-. Contact: 50994848. woman reply. My email is: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM (C 4419) [email protected] IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 7:00 PM 360º- 1 LAILA STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 9:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 5:30 PM (C 4417) SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:45 PM NO WED Mazda Zoom (6), model 18-5-2013 FANAR-1 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 6:00 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 8:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM 2011, white color, 40,000 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:30 PM NO WED km, excellent condition, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:45 PM THE CALL (DIG) 5:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:45 AM price KD 2,800/-. Contact: SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED NO WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM 66729295. (C 4420) SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:15 AM 360º- 2 AJIAL.1 20-5-2013 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 12:45 PM EMMANUEL (DIG) (MALAYALAM) 6:30 PM FANAR-2 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 3:00 PM EMMANUEL (DIG) (MALAYALAM) 9:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:45 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 5:15 PM Leaving Kuwait perma- PHANTOM (DIG) 3:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 7:30 PM AJIAL.2 nently after retirement. All RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 5:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 9:45 PM TADAKHA (DIG) (TELUGU) 6:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 7:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 12:05 AM THU+FRI households including PHANTOM (DIG) 9:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:30 PM fridge, electrical items, jog- PHANTOM (DIG) 11:00 PM NO THU+FRI ging machine, furniture etc PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 AM 360º- 3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:00 PM NO THU+FRI or full flat on sale. Contact: FANAR-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 3:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM 99798432. (C 4418) JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:00 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 5:30 PM 19-5-2013 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 3:15 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 7:45 PM AJIAL.3 AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 5:30 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 10:00 PM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 7:00 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 8:30 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:15 AM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 10:00 PM Nissan Infiniti G37 2009 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 10:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED model, 3.7 liter, excellent JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:45 AM AJIAL.4 AL-KOUT.1 AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 6:45 PM condition, automatic, origi- MARINA-1 IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 9:45 PM nal paint, 6 cylinder, 6 CD STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 1:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM changer, mobile connectivi- JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 7:15 PM METRO-1 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 6:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 10:00 PM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 6:30 PM ty, rear view camera and STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 9:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 12:30 AM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 12:05 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 9:30 PM scanner, sunroof, sand col- Prayer timings NO SUN+ TUE+WED or, cruise control, GPS, as METRO-2 Fajr: 03:23 AL-KOUT.2 good as new. Has run MARINA-2 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:15 PM TADAKHA (DIG) (TELUGU) 6:45 PM Shorook 04:53 THU+FRI SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM 60,000 kms, Price KD Duhr: 11:44 PHANTOM (DIG) 3:45 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 6:00 PM EMMANUEL (DIG) (MALAYALAM) 6:45 PM 6,500/-. Contact: 99742340. SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM NO THU+FRI Asr: 15:20 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:30 PM TADAKHA (DIG) (TELUGU) 10:00 PM (C 4414) Maghrib: 18:36 13-5-2013 112 Isha: 20:04

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

There could be a personal issue that has you stumped but change will come You have much eagerness today. This is a time where some project may eventually and simple answers will be available soon. Ambition is a powerful come under scrutiny from people in your vicinity. You should enjoy your hobby and not motivation and can lead you into conflict if you let it get out of control; relax. With your focus worry about what others think; the involvement with your hobby helps you to relax and it properly channeled you will find achievement and recognition. Some plumbing or technical is not taking your time away from the family. Enjoy the art of creating. Who knows; you event could delay your activities today. You may find yourself able to put your schedule on could make some interesting discoveries or some fun handmade gifts. This could mean hold with little or no problem. You are particularly gregarious and your social life should blos- that you have an adventure—learning the art of dance, magic, sewing or some other cre- som this coming week. Avoid extravagance and self-indulgence that also accompanies this ative activity. You teach young people to make good use of their talents and not be afraid time. This evening is a good time for letter writing, talking to friends and visiting with young to try new things. There are positive thinking, mental stability, good feelings, relaxation people. Smile; it is contagious. and opportunity. It is a pleasant time.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

You place a high value on your dreams and ideals and do not consider Habits are in a cycle of change; variety satisfies a deep inner need. Being on them impossible. You experience the unity around you—that which joins things together. the go and keeping a finger to the winds of change make you feel in touch. Learning and com- There is a love of the sea and of whatever heals that which separates us. Others may find municating scratch an instinctive itch. You may find yourself at a home show or a computer you especially witty and eccentric just now. Mysticism, mythology, poetry and music are exhibit; whatever is new and creates the ability to have-comfort-and-fun-while-working is natural. People who encounter you may sometimes feel deceived by your remarkable something you investigate today. There are many sensual and personal pleasures awaiting you vision, which they enjoy when they are with you but find hard to maintain alone. They as well. The urge for good food, lovely clothes and more beautiful surroundings is strong. You wish the world were as you say it is. You have a natural sense of what the public wants at somehow work thriftiness into the picture and find yourself calculating prices that will fit in this time. Clear decisions affecting others will prove most successful. You may join some your budget. This evening, a friend or relative gives good news, which will open a few doors of sort of animal study this evening; take a camera. job opportunity soon.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Everyone seems to be getting outside or going somewhere today. You may You are charming, kind and popular but this morning you look for ways just want to rest and hibernate with a good book. Sometimes your desire for to enjoy some time to yourself, to just take pleasure in a little solitude. A knowledge is in so many different directions that you lose focus and become scattered. Think walk or a coffee taken out-of-doors this morning may be just what is needed. A friend or about creating a new habit that will help you create a little balance in your life. You like to work relative becomes more of a fascinating individual today as you discover some hidden skill. ACROSS 1935). with words and ideas and have a natural appreciation for anything that is literary or artistic. Fun conversations and pictures may be enjoyed. Some project started long ago is about to become completed. Let’s face it, you need help with this project and an unexpected help- 1. A Chadic language spoken in northern 3. A member of a people who have no perma- Your sense of discernment when it comes to matters of literary and intellectual taste is very refined. You may decide to create some poetry or prose. There could be an opportunity to ful hand becomes a blessing this afternoon. The ability to be flexible is important. Young Nigeria. nent home but move about according to the people learn by watching the way you handle difficult situations. You may find yourself 4. Pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers. seasons. attend a concert. Whatever the case—you are right—this is a day to rest and enjoy. A loved one may be surprised by your antics this evening. enjoying the evening while visiting with neighbors or friends. 12. (computer science) A computer that is 4. The residue that remains when something running software that allows users to leave is burned. messages and access information of general 5. The sacred city of Lamaism. interest. 6. Dutch astronomer who proved that the Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 15. Relating to or containing the azo radical. galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence CAPRICORN 16. A lace used for fastening shoes. of the Oort cloud (1900-1992). Your favoritism to colors and wonderful accents carries through to your ability to Spiritual matters are important today. You may enjoy the group gather- 17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that 7. Relating to or resembling or made of or arrange flowers and decorate a room. Today you have the house all ready for a friend- ings that happen when one attends a religious service. A gathering of young was responsible for research into atomic ener- adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl. ly gathering . . . Perhaps a shower for a young couple that are looking forward to a marriage or a new people in some sports or picnic activity may give you opportunities for long discussions gy and its peacetime uses in the United 8. Other than what is under consideration or child. All the plans are made and food is ready for your company to enjoy. You can make the dullest and fun opportunities to meet and enjoy new people. You are warm and genuine and States. implied. spot seem pleasant. The same is true, when it comes to matters of literary taste—sophisticated. A attracted to art, music, singing and dancing. Perhaps you will be coordinating some event 18. Preserve of crushed fruit. 9. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish born coach or teacher, you may find yourself guiding and teaching a group of young people later this or organizing and administering to people today. It would not be unusual to find you in 19. A persistent attacker. flesh. afternoon. Your own growth and success may be linked to questions of security—home and family. the middle of some sort of charity project. Your inner resources and emotions are accent- This evening may be a good time to have fun in the kitchen, baking ahead for the week. ed. Expect a sense of support and goodwill from those around you. Perhaps you feel this 20. The cry made by sheep. 10. Someone who cuts and delivers ice. day was made for you; all is good. 21. Distant in either space or time. 11. An emotional response that has been 23. A natural body of running water flowing acquired by conditioning. on or under the earth. 12. A small cake leavened with yeast. 25. A member of an agricultural people of 13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) southern India. family Leguminosae. You are in a great mood today. You enjoy visiting with friends and driving You create pleasant surroundings in the home. Public activities that 27. German organist and contrapuntist (1685- 14. Any of a number of fishes of the family around and just feeling in touch. Learning and communicating creates awareness. You may take place should be well received. The need for emotional security is emphasized, 1750). Carangidae. find yourself teaching, taking a class or attending a lecture. You can really communicate and though you should not pressure a partner into doing things just to please or satisfy you. 28. 16 ounces. 22. A university in Connecticut. convey your ideas to others quite easily. You have a lot of drive and come across as assertive at Your tendency to partake in group activities is strong just now. Mental stimulation from times. This is a great day that should just flow along. In particular, you will do well in activities 30. The biblical name for ancient Syria. 24. A platform built out from the shore into others is key for you and it is a good idea to make every effort to cooperate and compro- that include family members this evening. You may find that board games teach and encour- 34. Serving as or forming a base. the water and supported by piles. mise with others. Have fun today! Take your loved ones to a movie, play, zoo or perhaps a age the young people in your family. You could feel real support and harmony for circum- 37. God of death. 26. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to picnic in the park with a little fun exercise as well. Take pictures for posterity. Passions, stances and those around you. You enjoy close relationships and you have noticed more emo- 40. Any of numerous low-growing cushion- 0.7958 ampere-turns. handicaps and negative attitudes are cast aside. An understanding is formed and a posi- tional depth recently. forming plants of the genus Draba having 29. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who tive day is for your taking. rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes has not yet begun to walk or talk. of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems. 31. Measuring instrument in which the echo 41. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mis- of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) chievous. detect and locate distant objects. 43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a 32. A promontory in northern Morocco oppo- New information is coming to your attention now. The mind and all that is The art of patience and the ability to control the tendency to exagger- skewer usually with vegetables. site the Rock of Gibraltar. mental will be the source of continued change and adjustment. Letters, writing and speaking ate are very important today as misunderstandings could be the cause of some difficulty. 45. A federally sponsored corporation that 33. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of assume a great deal of importance. You will often be asked to guide others. Your mind tends to If you take a particular situation too seriously you could miss a lighter and more imagina- insures accounts in national banks and other Central and South America. be engrossed with thoughts, ideas and concepts, and remains in almost constant flux. Mental tive approach to a solution. Open up your mind to new ideas and fill your life with the qualified institutions. 35. (archaic) Utterly cast down. learning is an area of preoccupation and may involve hours of involved conversations with possibilities of new opportunities by attending educational pursuits, traveling, trying 46. Designating a solution containing 1 mole 36. Being divided or separated. highly educated people. Perhaps a professor or an educated friend wants to talk computers your hand at writing or learning new ways of interacting. Your confidence and optimism of solute per 1000 grams of solvent. 38. A Loloish language. this afternoon. You have very clear insight, even genius, when it comes to discovering or are strong, even though you will be faced with the need to direct your efforts in ways that 48. A complex red organic pigment contain- 39. A long noosed rope used to catch animals. inventing things. You seem to have been born with this talent—fully operational. Your timing will increase your effectiveness. You are in an excellent cycle to learn or teach. You will enjoy a little work in the garden before evening. ing iron and other atoms to which oxygen 42. Small deciduous open-crowned tree of should be perfect. binds. eastern North America having creamy white 49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike flowers and large leaves in formations like part of an organism. umbrellas at the ends of branches. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 50. A fragment of brick used as a weapon. 44. Before noon. 55. A member of the Algonquian people of 47. Relating to or demonstrating acapnia. southern Ontario. 51. Rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin lay- 56. (Greek mythology) One of the three ers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey. Graces. 52. South African statesman who was released 59. Tall coarse perennial American herb hav- from prison to become the nation's first dem- ing small white flowers followed by blackish- ocratically elected president in 1994 (born in red berries on long drooping racemes. 1918). 61. A hymn derived from the Bible. 53. A stronghold into which people could go 65. Cereal made of especially rolled oats with for shelter during a battle. dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sug- 54. A quantity that is added. ar. 57. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. 68. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical 58. A white soft metallic element that tarnish- America. es readily. 69. Guinea fowl. 60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 73. The rate at which heat is produced by an 62. A clique that seeks power usually through individual in a resting state. intrigue. 74. The largest continent with 60% of the 63. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below earth's population. the water surface of still water consisting of a 75. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cyto- leaflike frond or plant body and single root. plasm of a cell. 64. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) 77. Used of a single unit or thing. from having corners turned down. 78. A bluish shade of green. 66. A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid 79. Relating to ocean depths from 2000 to capture). 5000 meters. 67. Type genus of the Amiidae. 80. A boy or man. 70. Devoid of warmth and cordiality. 71. Type genus of the Muridae. DOWN 72. Wild and domestic cattle. 1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar. 76. The blood group whose red cells carry 2. United States conductor (born in Japan in both the A and B antigens. Yesterday’s Solution

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Furlong arrested in West Hollywood Los Angeles sheriff’s spokesman says ‘Terminator 2’ star Edward Furlong has been arrested on suspicion of violating a restraining order filed by Ahis ex-girlfriend. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said that deputies responding to the scene Thursday in West Hollywood found Furlong hiding in a nearby property. Jail records show he was released Saturday just after noon after being held on $100,000 bail. In March, the 35-year- old actor had been sentenced to six months in jail for violating his probation in a 2010 case for violating a similar restraining order. He has been the subject of such orders taken out by both his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend. Furlong was also charged in January of battery of an ex-girlfriend.

Bieber buying engagement ring for Gomez ustin Bieber is reportedly buying a diamond ring for JSelena Gomez. Beverly Hills jeweller Neil Lane has been tasked with designing the £650,000 item with friends close to the ‘As Long As You Love Me’ hitmaker believing he is getting ready to propose to his on/off Ozzy girlfriend. The jeweller has created engagement rings for a number of stars - including Britney Spears - and although he won’t comment on clients, an insider has revealed Justin’s plans. The source told the Daily Star moving back to Sunday newspaper: “Justin is planning to go through final designs with Neil in the next week. “At the moment his favorite idea is a huge, canary yellow, princess-cut UK to save marriage diamond surrounded by smaller diamonds and set in zzy Osbourne is set to move back to the UK to save his mar- white or yellow gold.” It is said Justin’s schedule is being riage to Sharon. The couple - who have been married for 31 kept clear for Selena’s 21st birthday in July - and it seems O years - have had their arguments recently stemming from the he’s “relentless” pursuit is paying off. The insider added: Black Sabbath rocker’s drink and drug abuse, but according to reports “Justin kept relentlessly pursuing her with text messages, Sharon is willing to give him another chance if he leaves Los Angeles emails and phone calls, despite the fact that she dumped with her. With the 60-year-old star set to return as a judge on ‘The X him last year. “Justin’s mum Pattie also put pressure on Factor’ UK later this year, it seems the best chance of saving their rela- Selena after coming to the conclusion she was the only tionship is a return to their homeland. An insider told the one who could keep him on the straight and narrow.” Styles sets on Sunday People newspaper: “Ozzy loves living in LA but he knows that if he doesn’t return to England with Sharon it could be disastrous for their relationship. “By supporting Sharon in the UK it means they can work royal romance through their problems and she can help him with his issues.” The pair will be living in their mansion in arry Styles is reportedly desperate to date royalty to improve Buckinghamshire, south east England and escaping Hhis credibility. The One Direction heart throb is said to have to the “countryside” could be what their marriage told friends he wants to “move up in the world” by getting needs. The source added: “They will be staying at into higher class circles. An insider told the Daily Star Sunday news- their house in Buckinghamshire which is in the paper: “Harry is so bored of the showbiz set and thinks it’s time to countryside and very peaceful, like a haven. move up in the world. “Backstage before he gigs he was even trawl- “This is something they need to do for each ing the internet, asking his band mates what they thought of each other. LA is where all the problems began girl. He drew up a ‘hit list’ and the only rule was they couldn’t be mar- so they feel it will be good to live in ried.” It is reported Harry, 19, has set his sights on British Princess the UK together.” Eugenie, but he also isn’t ruling out Kate Middleton’s sister Pippa - although he knows she is in a “serious” relationship. The source added: “Needless to say, Pippa Middleton’s on his list - at number two - but he’s aware she has a serious boyfriend. “He also has a thing for Princess Beatrice, even though he said she’s not his ‘typical type of girl’. “But he’s totally fascinated with Princess Eugenie. He thinks she’s got the full package of class, looks and status.” The ‘Little Things’ pop star is apparently obsessed with the idea of getting into the high-class circles and is willing to date those with royal connections to work his way in. The insider revealed: “Harry has even secured a few phone numbers already through his high-flying contacts. “He hasn’t ruled out latching on to some of Pippa’s party pals to try to Stewart’s help him manoeuvre his way in there. “Harry really likes Pippa’s advise to daughters friend Camilla Campion-Awwad, and is trying to get involved in her od Stewart advises his daughters to have their own room while travelling with rock- elite little circle.” Rstars. The 68-year-old musician is an “easy-going dad” when it comes to his girls - Sarah, 40, Kimberley, 33, Ruby, 25, and Renee, 20 - and their love lives, but insists they take caution if choosing to date a musician and makes they are safe before the jet off around the globe by confirming they have separate rooms at hotels and a return ticket. He said: “I’m a pretty easy-going father; sometimes a little too easy-going ... I did warn my daugh- ter when she was going out with a would-be rock star - I won’t say which one, hell of a nice fellow - and she asked to travel with him. I said, ‘Whatever you do, before you even get on the plane, a return air-fare, first class and your own room.’ I would always send a return air-fare but never their own room unless it was someone really special. My kids have read the book - they know what I like.” Rod - who also has sons Liam and Sean from previ- ous marriages and Alastair and Aiden with current wife Penny Lancaster - feels 100 per cent content in his own skin and is “proud” of his journey to fame and large family. He added in an interview with Mojo magazine: “Yeah [being Rod Stewart is still fun]. I must admit I absolutely love it. I don’t think there’s one aspect of being me I don’t like. “I’m very proud of the fact that I’ve kept my feet on the ground and I’m very close to my family and friends who are not in show business.”

Timberlake not in David styles Harper

avid Beckham loves “dressing up” his daughter. The 38-year-old soccer rush for kids Dstar - who recently announced his plans to retire from the sport - is smit- ten with his and wife Victoria’s 22-month-old girl Harper and loves noth- ustin Timberlake “still has time” before having kids. The ‘Mirrors’ hitmaker isn’t in ing more than treating her to a cute new outfit which makes her stand out from a rush have children with wife Jessica Biel - who he wed in October 2012 - and other celeb tots. A source said: “Victoria has always dressed Harper beautifully, J but lately it’s been David who’s taken the reins. David tends to pick her bright thinks it is best to leave starting a family “to fate”. He said: “I’m not against the idea at all, but I think I still have some time ahead of me. Let’s leave it to fate.” The 32- clothes, whereas Victoria is a fan of a more conservative, neutral palette. He year-old heartthrob feels settling down with his actress spouse is a “normal” progres- adores doting on her and dressing her up.” David - who also has sons Cruz, eight, sion of entering his thirties and believes Jessica, 31, brings out the best in him. He Romeo, 10, and 14-year-old Brooklyn with the fashion designer - is so dedicated told Britain’s OK! magazine: “Life didn’t change overnight. Marriage, family - it’s all to styling his only daughter in fashionable pieces that he has a selection of part of the normal steps you take when you reach your thirties. “She’s brought me clothes for her in his room at Le Bristol hotel in France, where he stays during his stability and an inner force. The most important thing for me is that we’re able to training with French team Paris Saint-German. The insider added to Grazia maga- communicate so well and talk about absolutely everything. It’s beautiful to have that zine: “He’s always trying to pick up cool things for her to wear.” David has previ- kind of closeness and understanding.” Despite a successful musical comeback with ously admitted Harper takes after both her parents by being into “soccer and his new album ‘The 20/20 Experience’, a blossoming movie career and an A-list handbags”. He said: “She is a mixture of us both. She is walking and running actress wife, Justin thinks it’s important to remain humble and received advice on around and the boys are running with her to make sure she doesn’t fall. “She is handling fame from Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood. He said: “I remember spend- also kicking the ball around while she is carrying handbags.” —Agencies ing time with Clint Eastwood and he taught me some lessons about dealing with success. He was so cool and generous on the set even though he’s a Hollywood god.” 37 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LIFESTYLE

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Indian director Amit Kumar arrives with actors Tannishtha Chatterjee (third left), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (third right) and Vijay Verma (second right) for the screening of the film ‘Monsoon Shootout’ presented Out of Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.—AFP Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to

(From left) Dutch producer Marc van Warmerdam, actors Annet Malherbe, Jan Buvoet, Hadewych Minis and Jeroen Perceval and dispel Bollywood image director Alex van Warmerdam pose yesterday during a photocall for their film ‘Borgman; presented in Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. —AP ndian movie actors and a new wave of attended by a list of stars including actresses Idirectors are on a mission at the Cannes film Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor and festival - to show that their industry, which Freida Pinto. turns 100 this year, is more than just Bollywood. The largest Indian contingent to ‘Shackles’ date is on the French Riviera at the world’s There is no Indian film in either of the two leading cinema showcase to promote their main competitions at Cannes. The last Indian country, which has the world’s biggest film film selected to vie for the coveted Palme D’Or industry, making over 1,000 films a year com- was “Swaham” in 1994 while “Udaan” competed Dark Dutch fairy pared to about 600 in Hollywood. Movies from in Un Certain Regard for emerging filmmakers Mumbai-based Bollywood and other regional in 2010. But four Indian films will be screened - India films have struggled at the global box “Monsoon Shootout”, another thriller “Ugly”, a office with Indian cinema largely dismissed as tribute to the industry centenary called lengthy, song-and-dance numbers. “Bombay Talkies”, and love story “Dabba” tale spooks Cannes But the industry sees the 66th Cannes festi- (Lunchbox). val, where India is “guest country” to mark its Anupama Chopra, Bollywood author, centenary, as a chance to showcase a new columnist and critic, said Bollywood was a tag genre of Indian movies globally and to pro- that independent film-makers had to fight. hape-shifting home invaders terrorize a wealthy friends also turn up, in the form of greyhounds prowl- happens when magic comes over you,” she quipped. mote India as a place to both make films and “Maybe one day (Indian filmmakers) will break Sfamily of five in a Dutch thriller tinged with black ing the house and sniffing the pretty Danish au pair Van Warmerdam said consciousness was full of dark win a massive audience. “If you use the term free of the shackles of Bollywood and make a comedy that sent a shiver through Cannes yes- while she’s fallen asleep in the bathtub. Meanwhile surprises that could sneak up on the best of us. Bollywood it really represents the song-and- completely global film in terms of aesthetics,” terday. “Borgman” by Alex van Warmerdam is a dark Marina starts having recurring violent nightmares in “I read something about the Marquis de Sade... dance, credibility-stretched story kind of film,” he said. fairy tale that explores the guilty conscience of a cos- which Richard tries to kill her. She is sexually attracted that your mind is much bigger than you think and director Amit Kumar, whose gangster-cop In 2011 India saw a 42 percent jump in the seted modern wife living in a luxurious suburban to the mysterious Borgman, who has taken pains to that there are rooms you’ve never been before, thriller “Monsoon Shootout” held its premiere number of Hollywood movies shot there with home like a gilded cage. An opening sequence sees kill their gardener, put on a disguise and get himself maybe rooms where there are nasty, creepy things to at Cannes on Sunday, told Reuters. several Hollywood studios such as Disney, feral-looking men emerging from secret chambers hired to tend their grounds in the dead man’s place. find,” he told reporters. “That was more or less the “We need to portray Indian cinema as more News Corp’s Fox, and Sony entering deals with hidden underground in a wood, while an armed The increasingly irritable Marina scolds her hus- starting point of this movie.”It was the first Dutch film international and I hope our presence at or buying stakes in Indian companies. There search party led by the local priest tries to hunt them band for buying her an expensive necklace, saying in competition in nearly four decades at the world’s Cannes will make the world realise that Indian has also been a surge in the number of down. she feels ashamed of their wealth while others in the top cinema showcase and one of 20 pictures from cinema is most than just about Bollywood.” The Hollywood movies released in India, where 3.6 A bearded figure called Borgman, straight out of a world suffer in poverty. “We can’t help we’re from the around the world vying for the Palme d’Or top prize. Indian visitors to Cannes are also keen to lure billion film tickets were sold last year. Grimm Brothers’ tale, improbably pulls out a mobile prosperous West,” a baffled Richard tells her. “It’s not Jury president Steven Spielberg was grilled by a investment to their film industry, which is fore- Hollywood studios have been releasing their phone and tries in vain to contact his fellow forest- our fault.” And Marina flies into a rage when their odd Dutch reporter at the start of the festival whether he cast to grow to $5 billion by 2014 from $3.2 bil- films in India simultaneously with their North dwellers to warn them, in an early scene that drew young daughter Isolde destroys her teddy bear, scold- was familiar with Van Warmerdam, best known for lion in 2010, according to a report by Ernst & American releases and also dubbing films in laughs. Borgman emerges from the trees and walks up ing “someone sewed it by hand, possibly a child,” in European arthouse hits such as “Grimm” and “Waiter”. Young. various regional Indian languages. to the door of a sprawling contemporary house. He another pitch-black laugh line. Borgman and his Spielberg admitted he was not but laconically added: India’s presence has been high-profile since Uma Da Cunha, program advisor at the knocks and says he needs a bath as it’s been ages friends launch a final assault on the family, the body “We’ll become aware of the maker if the film causes the start of the 12-day festival with acting leg- 2012 Mumbai Film Festival, said studios want- since he washed. The media executive home owner, count rises and in a shocking finale, Marina is forced us to be made aware of the maker.” —AFP end Amitabh Bachchan on the red carpet on ed a slice of the huge Indian market. “The big Richard, demands he leave, but his wife, Marina, takes to choose between the forest demons and her hus- opening night to mark his Hollywood debut in and significant change in Cannes is that the pity on Borgman and later secretly lets him in to wash band. Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” alongside Indian film industry is being given space and up. The actress who played Marina, Hadewych Minis, Leonardo DiCaprio. Actress Vidya Balan also attention on the international film scene and it He quickly insinuates himself into the home, said she saw her character as a perfectly normal walked the red carpet in the pouring rain that is attracting business and ties from global film appearing as a dreamlike figure to their three children European wife and mother who is lured to the dark night as one of nine members of a jury led by interests,” she told Reuters. —Reuters and mesmerizing them with spooky stories. His forest side by the pressures of everyday life. “That’s what US filmmaker Steven Spielberg that will decide the coveted Palme D’Or award for best picture on the final day, May 26. A gala dinner to mark Indian cinema’s cen- tenary was due to be held on Sunday and Russian cult film director Balabanov dies at 54

lexei Balabanov, a director who captured shadowy but rich Russians to the West. Athe essence of Russia’s early post-Soviet Balabanov’s 2007 film “Cargo 200”-the name years with cult films about crime and the assigned to bodies returned from the Soviet war in Chechnya, has died at the age of 54 follow- Union’s deeply unpopular 1980s war in ing a long illness. “The films of Alexei Balabanov Afghanistan-was especially praised by critics. It “is are a collective portrait of our country at its most a special movie,” tweeted popular Russian televi- From left, actors Garrett Hedlund, Justin Timberlake, Carey US actor and singer Justin Timberlake and British actress dramatic time in history,” Prime Minister Dmitry sion personality and opposition movement Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, and directors Joel and Ethan Coen Carey Mulligan pose. Medvedev wrote on Facebook. “I liked his work. member Ksenia Sobchak. “It is about (human) pose for photographers during a photo call for the film The passing of a talented director is a great loss indifference, which is hell.” Balabanov was also Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in for friends and fans alike. Condolences.” highly praised for the movie “War”, about Cannes, southern France, yesterday. —AP Balabanov, who made 16 films and died Chechnya, where Russia fought two brutal cam- while working on a new production in Saint paigns in the past two decades. “This is a tragedy- Petersburg on Saturday, was most famous in a huge tragedy for Russian film,” the Kommersant Russia for his classics “Brat” (Brother) and “Brat business daily wrote yesterday. Balabanov’s 2”. The graphic films follow the story of a youth friends said the director was aware of being Gatsby star swaps flapper who is forced to lead a life of violence and crime gravely ill several months ago, but the cause of on the streets of Balabanov’s native Saint his death was not made public. —AFP Petersburg at a time when Russia had few post- Soviet laws and life seemed in a permanent dresses for duffel coats state of flux. “Brother 2” moves a part of the action to Chicago, reflecting the steady flow of reat Gatsby” actress another of her tirades to chase best, and the best so far at Llewyn Davis” is Mulligan’s second “G Carey Mulligan traded down a street after a cat he has Cannes,” said the Guardian. Cannes outing this year after her in her Tiffany jewellery lost. “You were calling me a “Above all ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ performance as Daisy in Baz and Prada-designed flapper dress- careerist and I was calling you a is a revelatory showcase for Isaac, Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby”, es for polo necks and duffel coats loser,” she tells him to laughs from who sings with an angelic voice which opened the festival on in her second star turn at the the Cannes audience before he and turns a potentially unlikable Wednesday. Cannes Film Festival yesterday in sets off on a trying road journey to character into a consistently relat- The 27-year-old British actress, the Coen brothers’ eagerly antici- Chicago in search of work. In able, unmistakably human pres- who as a teenager ignored advice pated “Inside Llewyn Davis”. another scene, Llewyn sings his ence,” said US entertainment trade to forget acting and “marry a Mulligan stars with Justin heart out under the stony gaze of magazine Variety. The Hollywood banker”, came to the attention of Timberlake and Oscar Isaac as folk a hard-bitten club owner. Reporter praised a “gorgeously Hollywood after a critically singers chasing fame and success As his career dreams slip away, made character study leavened acclaimed debut on Broadway in in early 1960s New York in a bleak- his would-be employer tells him with surrealistic dimensions both Chekhov’s “The Seagull”. She went ly comic film greeted by one critic flatly: “I don’t see a lot of money comic and dark”. The latest offer- on to win a best actress Oscar as the “best so far at Cannes” while here.” Guatemalan-born US actor ing from brothers Joel and Ethan nomination before she was 25 and another hailed a “stupendous Isaac as Llewyn sang and played was as “stunning and singular as has since starred in a string of soundtrack”. guitar live on set for the film, the anything in the Coens’ canon”, it Hollywood movies including Mulligan transforms herself Coen brothers’ first movie in com- added. “Drive” with Ryan Gosling. —AFP into dowdy ratbag Jean, who has petition for the Palme d’Or since Joel Coen won the Palme d’Or just discovered she is pregnant, “No Country for Old Men” in 2007. in 1991 for “Barton Fink”, and the not by boyfriend Jim, played by The film was met with warm brothers have made frequent trips Timberlake, but by Llewyn Davis. applause at a press preview on to the French Riviera festival with This file picture shows Film director Alexey Balabanov posing during the “Where were we?” Llewyn asks a Saturday. “What an intense pleas- other films selected for the invita- photocall of ‘Ja tozhe hochu (Me too)’ during the 69th Venice Film Festival at furious Jean after he interrupts yet ure this film is, one of the Coens’ tion-only competition. “Inside Venice Lido. —AFP 38 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LIFESTYLE Featurs

Shabana Azmi as Manjula is encountered by her ‘alter-ego’ Shabana Azmi exhibits multiple personality symptoms in Indian actress and theater activist Shabana Azmi is hon- (on screen, also played by her in 44 minutes straight shot), ‘Broken Images’, a play written by Girish Karnad and direct- ored after her one-woman play ‘Broken Images’ was staged in ‘Broken Images’, an English play about the roles we play ed by Alyque Padamsee. organized by Al-Mulla Exchange at American International and downplay in this age of images. The play is successful School, Maidan Hawally, Saturday, May 18, 2013. largely because of Shabana’s image as an arthouse actress. Shabana Azmi’s Broken Images, wordy but compact Azmi comes alive and on-screen in Al-Mulla one-hour one-woman play By Sunil Cherian Shabana Azmi with lots of psychological concepts weaved in and geo- and I caught them as if they were making love’. Malini who was para- political jokes sprinkled throughout. lyzed below her waist was ‘never exposed to sun or wind, never grew here is only one actor on stage, but there are two characters, one Living a lie is a central theme spiced by sibling rivalry and ego-cen- obese, but was supple and translucent’. alive and another on a screen. But anyone could argue and agree, trism. The play is not necessarily built upon multiple personality disor- T Other characters like many in the audience did at the American International der, Shabana Azmi said while answering a question on Saturday, but School, Maidan Hawally on Saturday, May 18, during a question-answer “the character on the screen could be one’s conscience.” The typical Indian husband, ‘caring but useless’ well-to-do Pramod, session after the play, that the two characters were two sides of the his friend Lucy with whom he shared cyber jokes, and the nurse who same woman - writer Manjula Sharma who stole her sister’s novel. The sister war Manjula suspects visiting her husband are other characters who are Manjula, the novelist who achieved overnight-fame, the play’s cen- Manjula, the emotionally dependent wife - typically Indian - of revealed in the confession - all to strengthen the weak marital life of tral character, is shattered as she confesses how she stole the novel but Pramod Tiwari, an IT-crat, achieves her husband’s status after her debut Manjula-Pramod. The villain is Manjula who publishes her sister’s novel her revelation becomes dramatic when we come to know there is more English novel ‘Cry of the River’ gets rave reviews abroad. ‘Broken Images’ in her name because the real life novel portrayed Manjula as a preten- than name and fame behind the plagiarism she is accused of. To add begins when the star writer, in an attempt to shield her image, speaks at tious mediocrity and she worried about becoming the laughing stock more drama to the complicated story of Manjula and Malini, her sister, a TV studio. Just as she leaves, an image appearing on the studio TV, of the community. Now that the real author is dead, Manjula twists the Shabana Azmi, outrivaling both the sisters, threw the question to the stops her for the stream of consciousness flashback of her success, err, course of events and becomes the super lady, surpassing the insignifi- Al-Mulla audience on Saturday: who do you sympathize with, Manjula failure in life. The image on TV could be her inner voice, super-alter ego cant nothing she was terrified of. or Malini? or could it be Malini, her dead sister? The punch in the play comes when the inner voice tells a seemingly ‘Broken Images’, the scandal behind a world famous novelist, penned The play unfolds through conversations or confrontations between triumphant Manjula that it is Malini who has ultimately succeeded if she by Girish Karnad and directed by Alyque Padamsee, is worth watching the characters, both dressed alike - they pour water at the same time. wanted to prove that Manjula was a fraud. We see the shadow behind as a statement of the life and the drama we live and play everyday. There are sympathizing and friendly moments between the characters the character alive (Manjula), now seated below the TV image (Malini?), More than just image-reality dichotomy, the play throws some light like when the image on TV sneezes, the character alive on stage says shattered and the TV image is blurred (Manjulalini?). on our own inner dramas scripted by us, others or time. The play is bless you and there is a perfectly timed hi-five moment too. Manjula word-packed, almost like a radio drama, written in elegant Indian was jealous of her intellectual and talented sister Malini who shared Epilogue English - sounding meticulous just like the aspiring writer Manjula - and ‘profane’ moments with her husband. ‘Once when I returned home I saw A TV image is skillfully used in a play about how an image is its dialogues, rather monologues, delivered in crystal clear diction by my husband and my sister squabbling like couples debating on ethics unmasked making use of the image of Shabana Azmi’s stature.

This undated photo provided by the South Dakota Department of Tourism A sneak peek of the famous presidents’ faces of Motorcycle riders on Main Street in downtown Sturgis, SD. Hundreds of thou- shows Art Alley in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota. —AP photos Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. sands of bikers descend on the town of Sturgis, South Dakota every August for the annual Sturgis Rally gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts.

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most ness. Only the gambling remains today, but street and children and families are invited. This year’s rally famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but shows and memorabilia at stores lining the brick streets is scheduled for Aug 5-11. it’s not the only one. Covering approximately 8,000 evoke the town’s wilder days. Deadwood’s history is so miles (nearly 13,000 kilometers), the Black Hills are a unique that it’s the only city in the United States to be Stop by wall drug US lottery winner scoops small, isolated mountain range with a big Native named a National Historic Landmark. On the cusp of the Black Hills along Interstate 90 American influence. The Lakota took over the moun- in the tiny town of Wall is this sprawling tourist tains from the Cheyenne in the 1700s and named it Sneak a peek at Mount Rushmore attraction consisting of a drug store, gift shop, $590.5-million jackpot Paha Sapa (translated to Black Hills.) The Lakota signed a There is no entrance fee to see Mount Rushmore restaurants, a chapel and several other stores. treaty with the US government in 1868 exempting the National Memorial, but parking will set you back $11. Pharmacist Ted Hustead bought the drugstore in ne ticket-holder won a record Powerball formed by the participating state lotteries-can- hills from white settlers. But when gold was discovered Instead, stop on a nearby side road with a scenic view 1931. Business was slow until his wife, Dorothy, came lottery jackpot of more than $590 mil- not be played from outside the United States or in the mountains, the US government broke the treaty area to snap a photo of the faces of Washington, up with the idea to advertise free ice water to O lion, organizers said yesterday, ending a outside participating states. The game presents and moved the tribes to reservation lands in other areas Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson. The monument may parched travelers. Today, signs dot Interstate 90 days-long American quest for a life-changing a choice of five numbers from a pool of 59, plus of the state. The Lakota influence can be seen not far be farther away, but the views can still be just as breath- enticing travelers to stop at the famed drug store. payout. The winning numbers — 10, 13, 14, 22, a Powerball number from a separate pool of 35. from Mount Rushmore in the still-unfinished mountain taking. Head to US Route 16A for a good view. And the water remains free. 52 and a Powerball of 11 — were drawn just Like all US lotteries, the winnings are subject to carving of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Farther south, visi- before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 GMT yester- tax. The richest US lottery jackpot of all time is tors can see buffalo up close as they roam the prairie in Spend a day at the Sturgis motorcycle rally Gaze at Rapid city’s art alley day) and the winning ticket was sold in Florida, $656 million, won in a Mega Millions draw in Custer State Park. Here are five free things to do in the Hundreds of thousands descend on the town of Located in downtown Rapid City near the his- according to the competition’s website. US March 2012 and split between three tickets in Black Hills: Sturgis (population: 6,600) every August for this toric Hotel Alex Johnson, Art Alley is a place where media quoted lottery officials as putting the Illinois, Kansas and Maryland. annual gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. Alcohol, artists can showcase their talent through graffiti, winning purse at $590.5 million. Powerball did Back then, when entering cost $1, big lines Walk through historic Deadwood leather, bare skin and ramped up engines take over paintings and sculpture. Stroll between Sixth and not name the winner but said further details of customers formed for three days, said Established during the Black Hills’ gold rush in the during the weeklong event. Many riders will drive Seventh streets to see how creativity can take hold would be released later yesterday. Americans by Rajendra Prasad Bhusal, an employee at the 1870s, Deadwood is known for gambling and lawless- their motorcycles from all the country for the event, along a city block. —AP the droves plunked down their cash Saturday in Continental drink store in downtown a last-minute push for a chance at scooping the Washington. In recent days, hopefuls have again top prize, snapping up the $2 tickets at super- streamed in to buy Powerball tickets, but the markets, corner stores and gas stations. crowd is only a third of the numbers seen in The jackpot had been trailed as “the largest March last year, according to the liquor sales- in the 21-year history of the game,” the Iowa man. “Now, people complain that the tickets state lottery agency said in a statement before cost too much,” he added. The Powerball web- the draw. The prediction proved accurate, nar- site had put the odds of winning at one in rowly surpassing a November 2012 Powerball 175,223,510. For a comparison, the chance of jackpot of $587.5 million. “Strong sales across getting struck by lighting in the United States is the country are the reason the prize is taking big one in 280,000, according to the National jumps now,” the organizers said-particularly Lightning Safety Institute. after the May 15 draw, when the jackpot stood The main Powerball website advised that at $363.9 million and there was no winner. Sales “swinging a live chicken above your head while were also boosted after Powerball tickets wishing for the future numbers does NOT work” became available in California starting in April, to improve the chances of winning. Buying the 43rd US state to join the competition. more tickets helps, “but the odds are still high A sneak peek of the famous presidents’ faces of Mount The exterior of Wall Drug in Wall, SD Wall Drug is a sprawling Powerball-a shared jackpot coordinated by and hitting the jackpot is still a question of fate,” Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. attraction in the tiny town of Wall, South Dakota. the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), it added. —AFP 39 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 LIFESTYLE

Fashion

Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons for Christian Dior acknowledges the audience at the Models present creations by Belgian designer Raf Simons for Christian Dior during the col- end of his collection show entitled ‘Croisiere 2014’. lection show entitled ‘Croisiere 2014’- (Cruise), on May 18, 2013 in Monaco. —AFP photos

Dior presents cruise fashions amid stars in Monaco

he glittering star power of Cannes migrated up the coast to TMonaco for front-row seats at Dior’s colorful, sexy cruise fash- ion show. With the Mediterranean Sea the picturesque back- drop, Dior showcased its 2014 collection on Saturday night. It was a wet, cold and generally miserable outside the white stage, but Raf Simons’ designs provided the shimmering summery lift for the evening. Among those on hand were Oscar-winner and Dior spokes- woman Marion Cotillard, actresses Ruth Wilson and Jessica Biel, and Prince Albert of Monaco, along with his fashionable wife, Princess Charlene. Before the show, Biel called Dior’s fashions beautiful, saying she also appreciated them because they were made for real woman. If that was the case, such women are dynamic gazelles who even in their downtime have multiple agendas. There were sheer lace cover- ups, brightly colored dresses, and jackets and coats made of wool. In press materials provided at the show, Simons explained his inspiration to prominently feature lace in the collection. “I never worked with lace before,” he said. “It was about transforming the meaning of the material; not romantic, not historical, not old, to something light, playful, colorful and modern - with energy.” Many of the pieces had an effervescent feel, like the metallic blended with sheer lace and a strip of a coral floral print in one dress; a wool jacket and pants were made vibrant with bright red color. But there were other outfits that had a more traditional look, like a flowing spaghet- ti-strap red dress that hit mid-calf at the front but draped near the floor in the back, and the one-piece bathing suits that harkened back to old-style Hollywood glamour - particularly a brilliant blue piece with ruching in the back. After an enthusiastic ovation for the show, guests such as Liv Tyler were shuttled to the Oceanographic Museum nearby as Prince Albert and his wife threw a reception that show- cased some of the fashions - including Dior - worn by his late mother, Princess Grace. —AP

In Miami, Donna Karan showcases Haitian artisans

he handbag Donna Karan was show- scary,” Karan said). The exhibition also Ting off Friday lacked her signature includes oversized metal work by contem- logo, or any designer’s logo. It was porary Haitian artist Philippe Dodard. He made of paper mache and, the fashion also is the director of Haiti’s national arts designer said, represented Haiti’s hand- school and is working with Karan to train made carnival masks - in wearable form. Haitian artisans with techniques that will She said the tote bag and other similar help them bring their traditional skills to a fashion and decorative items made by global marketplace. “What we have to do is Visitors check art, furnishing and accessories at Haitian artisans are part of her “dressing give them the tools to produce a product the Discover Haiti Exhibition in the Little Haiti and addressing people” campaign: taking that is equal to their competition. That area of Miami. —AP photos art to where the most people will buy it. “A doesn’t mean factory. That means artisanal,” painting can say anything, but let’s get it Karan said. out there in the world where people buy T- Karan started her Urban Zen Foundation shirts,” Karan said at the opening of a Little after the death of her husband in 2001. A Haiti Cultural Center exhibition of art, Haitian employee at the foundation urged accessories and furnishings produced by her to turn her focus to the Caribbean artisans in Haiti and sold through Karan’s country after Haiti was devastated by an Urban Zen Foundation. earthquake three years ago. Karan is It’s no charity craft fair. The items artfully among the designers, celebrities and retail- displayed in the Miami gallery would sell in ers who have advocated for Haitian artisans any mainstream home furnishings store. amid ongoing, sputtering reconstruction What sets them apart is their origin: hand- efforts. Many of the artisans lost tools, stu- made in Haiti from stone, wood, metals and dios, homes and loved ones in the earth- textiles sourced or repurposed in the quake. Caribbean country. Tobacco leaves are “She understands what we as a people, molded into neutrally colored vases. what we as a government, want to do with Strings of crystals dangle from wrought- our art: show the world the riches of Haiti iron chandeliers. Naughty, charming, sea- and commercialize it,” said Haiti’s consul horse-shaped figures cut from tires strut in general in Miami, Francois Guillaume. “But, lines across a wall. we don’t want to lose our identity. We don’t Discarded cartons and wrappers have want to lose whatever it is that makes been coiled into beads for multi-strand, Donna Karan like Haiti that much.” The statement necklaces. Fully functional tote “Discover Haiti Exhibition” will run at the Fashion designer Donna Karan smiles as she talks to bags are made from recycled cotton T- Little Haiti Cultural Center for two guests and visitors at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. shirts or paper mache (“It’s so durable, it’s months.—AP US lottery winner scoops $590.5-million jackpot38 MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013

Denmarkís Emmelie de Forest raises her prize next to her team after winning the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmoe, Sweden, yesterday. —AFP Photos Denmark’s de Forest wins Eurovision song contest

enmark’s Emmelie de Forest has won this night’s finals by the tallest man in the US - states, after a decade of war they always vote for year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her Ukrainian-born Igor Vovkovinskiy. Vovkovinskiy - each other in Eurovision, “ Bildt told The Dethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only who stands 7 feet, 8 inches (234 centimeters) - Associated Press. “That I think is fun.” Having won Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spec- wobbled onstage in a fur and feathers, placing five times, most famously with ABBA’s Waterloo in tacular stage shows by performers from the fairy-like Ognevich on a rock where she stood 1974, Sweden is a veteran of Eurovision. It took Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television for the rest of the performance. The televised the opportunity on Saturday to showcase some viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, hip- extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million of its big music acts. At the opening of the com- pie-chic de Forest for the catchy love song that is worldwide, is now in its 58th year. Once again petition, contestants marched into the stadium Ukraine’s Zlata Ognevich performs. driven by her deep, Shakira-like voice. She without fail, it produced a mix of bubble-gum with flags, Olympics-style, accompanied by a received a total of 281 points in the glitzy music pop songs, somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions choir singing a song especially composed by battle, which also featured a bizarre opera pop and bizarrely kitsch musical productions. Swedish super DJ Avicii and ABBA members number from Romania, the comeback of “Total In an opening video, soccer great Zlatan Bjorn Ulveaus and Benny Andersson. While con- Eclipse of the Heart” star Bonnie Tyler and an Ibrahimovic welcomed the viewers to the com- testants waited for the votes to come through, Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of petition in his hometown Malmo, in southern Swedish singer Sarah Dawn Finer sang ABBA’s hit Black Sabbath. Sweden. The Nordic country hosted the event tune “The Winner Takes It All.” “It was overwhelming and I could really feel because its contestant Loreen won last year with Yet the event - with a price tag of around the fans and the audience and the people in the “Euphoria.” This year’s event also saw the return to 153.5 million Swedish kronor ($23 million) - didn’t arena,” the 20-year-old de Forest told reporters the international stage of two seasoned measure up to last year’s lavish competition host- after the winners were announced early yester- European stars. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” singer ed by oil-rich Azerbaijan in its capital, Baku. “We day. “I’m really, really excited and happy.” De Bonnie Tyler represented Britain with the sleepy have attempted to host Eurovision with less mon- Forest was followed by second-place winner Farid love ballad “Believe In Me,” while Anouk, whose ey to show that it is possible to do this without it Mammadov of Azerbaijan, who got 234 points song “Nobody’s Wife” was a big hit in Europe in being too painful for the host country,” said Jan- for the song “Hold Me,” which he performed on the 1990s, performed the song “Birds” for The Erik Westman, a spokesman for host broadcaster top of a glass cubicle containing a male dancer. Netherlands. Tyler ended in 19th place, while SVT. The festive atmosphere was visible through- The Ukraine’s Zlata Ognevich and her song Anouk finished in the 9th spot. out the city of Malmo on Saturday, where resi- “Gravity” finished third with 214 points. Finland’s Krista Siegfrid provided this year’s dents and visitors blended on the sunny streets Britain’s Bonnie Tyler performs. Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest raises her prize. Ognevich was carried onstage in Saturday controversy, ending her bouncy pop number waving the flags of their favorite countries. —AP “Marry Me” with a girl-on-girl kiss that some inter- preted as a stance promoting gay marriage. While it did not raise eyebrows in most parts of Western Europe - where Eurovision has long been a bas- tion of gay culture - the act jarred sensitivities in parts of eastern and southern Europe. Her cheesy tune didn’t win the hearts of Europeans, however, and she ended up third to last with only 13 points. Romanian opera singer Cezar gave one of the more remarkable performances. He resembled a Dracula reborn as a high-pitched vocalist, attempting a crossover opera pop number with techno beats and pyrotechnics that landed him in 13th place. Three muscular male dancers in red body paint were delivered out of a large red cape. Two semifinals this week had whittled down the contestants from 40 to 26. The voting is shared equally between professional juries in all participating countries and viewers using their telephones to pick their favorites. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who watched the competition in Malmo Saturday, called it a unique event that unites Europe. French designer Jean Paul Gaultier attends the final of the 2013 Eurovision “We see the old Yugoslavia, now independent Malta’s Gianluca performs. Song Contest in Malmo.

Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest performs. Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest addresses a press confer- Supporters of Denmarks singer celebrate after the final of the 2013 Ukraine’s Zlata Ognevich performs. Georgia’s Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani ence after winning the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision Song Contest. perform.